I felt like one of the boys. My friends were boys. In school I related to boys.

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff.

When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?

I thought, transgender people are much worse off than I am. That's why they're willing to risk everything to be who they are. But the older I got, the harder it got to stay in my body.

Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.

I don't have the luxury of doing things privately.

I came out around 25 publicly.

I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life.

A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again that's not the case in my family.

People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on television.

To be beautiful, love is the best makeup to wear.

Follow your heart. Just don't get lost.

A lot of people worry about the ' wear and tear ' on furnishings. I feel it's more a matter of people treating the things that surround them with respect.

Favour will as surely perish as life.

Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The childs mind must be set free.

I'm especially interested in the music of John Cage... I would like to do some experimenting with the relationship between his freeform sound and free-form art.

Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness.

Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands.

We have to get rid of ISIS, have to get rid of ISIS. We have no choice.

I remember saying in college that I would never do commercials.