You can be very, very competent... but if you're not willing to speak out... have the confidence based on your knowledge... what's the point?

I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification.

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

But I know for a fact that had I had a father, I'd have some discipline. I'd have more confidence. Your mother cannot calm you down the way a man can. Your mother can't reassure you the way a man can. My mother couldn't show me where my manhood was. You need a man to teach you how to be a man.

Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear.

A person with belief never grovels before anyone, whining and whimpering that it's all too much, that he lacks support, that he is being treated unfairly. Instead, such a person tackles problems head on and then affirms, 'As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.