"I'm not a religious person. I'm a spiritual person. I believe in a higher power, but I don't believe in organized religion."

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

"I've learned that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."

"My mother said, 'If you can't be a bridge, be a plank.' I thought that was a rather ingenious way of putting it."

"My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness."