“Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work's important, family's important, but without excitement, you have nothing. You're cheating yourself if you refuse to enjoy what's coming.”

“It's not where you start or even what happens to you along the way that's important. What is important is that you persevere and never give up on yourself.”

“Never forget the nine most important words of any family-

I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me.”

“You must work for yourself; for what you reject may be as important for you to have seen and thought about, as what you adopt.”

“The most important person you can ever talk to is yourself, so be careful what you say.
The most important person that you will evaluate is yourself, so be careful what you think.
The most important person you will love is yourself, so be careful what you do.”

“Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper.”

“Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself.”

“I say to a lot of people who struggle [with coming out] — they're always afraid how it's going to affect their family — and to me it's always family is really important, but there has to be a 'you' that can be part of a family. If there's no 'you,' [you can't] be part of the family.”

“Nobody cares, nobody cares. You worry about yourself, your family and the people that are important to you.”

“No matter what you work on, you're not working on everything else. So the question is not how to avoid procrastination, but how to procrastinate well. There are three variants of procrastination, depending on what you do instead of working on something: you could work on (a) nothing, (b) something less important, or (c) something more important. That last type, I'd argue, is good procrastination.”