I have a smile 24/7.

I'm not trying to be a spokeswoman for the transgender community; I just want to be looked at as a living, breathing, happy human being.

Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.

My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldnt do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.

Live in a way that is worth Christ dying for.

It's a hard life if you don't weaken.

Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it.

Even in extreme conditions, we should not act according to the flesh, for it lusts against the spirit

That's what keeps me up at three in the morning: Who's looking at reviews of Cabin Boy right now?

Adventure is not something you travel to find. It's something you take with you, or you're not going to find it when you arrive.

If a book has no index or good table of contents, it is very useful to make one as you are reading it.

The feeling of arms around me, of love in my heart, it was more powerful than any of the negativity I knew was existing in the world for me. That feeling of love killed it all.

I'd been broken beyond repair.

The noiseless din that we have long known in dreams, booms at us in waking hours from newspaper headlines.