"I'm not very comfortable with what people sometimes say or think about me - things I don't feel responsible for."

"Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of others."

"Better to live one year as a tiger, than a hundred as a sheep."

"I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all."

"Find your confidence, lead with love... the rest will follow."

"Confidence and arrogance are not the same. You don't have to be rude to be confident. You just have to like who you are and be proud of who you are with enough grace, and that makes people around like you too."

"I prefer going through fire rather than bypassing it."

"I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in and going after your dreams."

"When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it."

"I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive."

"If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed."