Let not one single life have passed in vain. What really matters is who you love and how you love.

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.

I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.

The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about what you want to be, but it's a story about who you want to be.

It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.