“Just keep swimming!”

“If you have to say you’re kidding, it might not be a great joke.”

“Enjoy your life. God gave us our bodies as a gift. (Granted, to some of us it’s kind of a gag gift, but that’s okay too.) Wear what you want, love who you want, and have fun.”

“Though you feel you’re not where you’re suppose to be, you shouldn’t worry because that next turn that you take, it will lead you to where you wanna go.”

“You never know what funny can do.”

“What you look like on the outside is not what makes you cool…I mean, I had a mullet and I wore parachute pants for a long, long time. And I’m doing OK.”

“No one is perfect, except for Penélope Cruz.”

“I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness – and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I’m a human trying to make it through in this world.”

“I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules.”

“I think there’s too much mult-tasking going on. I think people need to quiet down and focus and be still more.”

“It must be around forty, when you’re ‘over the hill.’ I don’t even know what that means and why it’s a bad thing. When I go hiking and I get over the hill, that means I’m past the hard part and there’s a snack in my future. That’s a good thing as far as I’m concerned.”

“Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.”

“I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day.”

“When I look back on the stuff I used to wear, I wonder why somebody didn’t try to stop me. Just a friendly warning, ‘You may regret this,’ would have been fine.”

“I prefer to believe that people are good and honest and respect me enough to tell me the truth. It’s not easy to find those people all the time, but they’re out there.”

“I hope I make people feel better. I hope I take people out of their situations a little bit and make them happier. That’s really why I do what I do.”

“I think they should have a Barbie with a buzz cut.”

“If we don’t want to define ourselves by things as superficial as our appearances, we’re stuck with the revolting alternative of being judged by our actions.”

“Haters are my motivators.”

“It always helps to think about other people instead of ourselves.”

“I’m just saying we can all work on our manners. We can say please and thank you. We can be punctual. We can just be nicer to one another. It’s something we have in our power to do.”

“I’m just saying we can all work on our manners. We can say please and thank you. We can be punctual. We can just be nicer to one another. It’s something we have in our power to do.”

“If someone ever says you’re weird, say thank you.”

“You just have to keep driving down the road. It’s going to bend and curve and you’ll speed up and slow down, but the road keeps going.”