"I've learned that you can't control everything, but you can control your attitude towards everything."

"I'm always surprised when I'm referred to as a 'legend.' I think of myself as a work in progress. A rather old, but still eager, work in progress."

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. Unless it's bearing a story you told badly."

"I believe that equality is the most important thing a person can have. And I believe that equality can bring us all together."

"I'm not a victim of my past. I'm a survivor of my past. And I'm going to use my past to help others."