“If you truly own who you are, no one can use you against you.”

“Courage is one thing that no one can ever take away from you.”

“Even in the worst of situations-even when it seems no one in the world appreciates you-as long as you have hope, everthing can get better”

“Don’t listen to what people tell you because they’ll try to bring you down. And don’t listen to yourself, either, because yourself will try to bring you down even more so than anyone else. As long as you just put all your energy into one thing, it can happen.”

“You've got to show the world who you are before it tells you. Otherwise you become victim to someone you're not.”

“My grandpa had a saying before he died: You can hope in one hand, shit in the other, and see which is filled first.”

“No matter what you do, you can never please everyone. And that was the hardest lesson to learn. In fact, I'm still learning it.”