For a long time trans people have always been a joke. Our reputation has always been the bottom of the barrel and it's not fair.

I run into a lot of ignorance and stupidity. It gets really frustrating, but you have to take yourself out of it and realize what's happening in the bigger picture.

When you live this trans experience, there's a point and time in your life that you almost stop developing because you don't know where to go.

Everyone else is following these male and female tracks that have already been set for them, but when you're trans there is no trail.

Stepping into the gym or going out to do sports is a scary thing for a trans person - you feel like everyone is looking at you.

Feeling comfortable with your body as you go through a transition is not easy, and honestly, as a trans person on hormones or after surgery, you just don't really know what your results will be, how you'll finally look. Managing all of that is a challenge.

Being a woman means everything to me.

Before my transition I felt trapped, and now I've been set free.

Drag Race' was when I was kind of confused about how I wanted to live the rest of my life and I was just having fun, a little ignorant, a little young.

Luckily for me the public have known me before my transition and I've always had the same body type.

In all honesty plastic surgery these days goes hand-in-hand with beauty maintenance. It's nothing new. Who I am, my body, I was not created from surgery, at all, whatsoever.

I see the human body as your soul's apartment.

I want to make 'People' magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People.

Your gender should not matter in your heart or in the way you express your personality.

I got kicked out of Catholic school, by the way, because I was too feminine. I was too feminine and I had a crush on this boy named Anthony and the nuns were not having it.

I ended up going to public school in the first grade, and that's when I knew I had to be very strategic about my survival in school. I tried my best to be friends with people who were going to protect me.

We cannot let fear and terror dictate how we live our lives, no matter what. Life is a blessing with an expiration date, and we must embrace it while we can.

We must learn to exist together in peace and love people as they are. That is the only way humanity wins.

The only way to combat hate is by demonstrating empathy and love.

I've been told that I can't do things simply because I was trans.

There's a lot of healing that needs to happen between the LGBT community and the cisgender heterosexual world. There's a ton of misunderstanding.

Every one of us deserves the right to have a great education that's going to prepare us and give us the tools that we need in order to thrive outside of school. It's our government's responsibility to make sure that everyone is included.

When you don't have a support system, and you're constantly being bullied for who you are, and you begin to not accept yourself for who you are, it's a distraction from schoolwork. It's a distraction from learning and from growing.

Drag has always been an open space where anyone within the LGBT community can express their creativity.

I just want to say that I'm, like, living for myself, because I was onstage at Radio City Music Hall with Christina Aguilera - and my name was on the screen. It was a big moment!

My message is: beauty has no gender. At the end of the day beauty is beauty.

I'd like to live in a country where I feel safe.

Being in the entertainment industry, I do have some privileges, but when I'm off sets and in the real world, I'm a trans individual whose rights and safety have been taken away.

Most Americans need to be told discrimination against trans people is against the law. Instead of looking at us as people, they look at us as not people. If there's a law that states this treatment is not allowed, I'd feel safer to function more confidently in society because I'd know I'm protected by the law in the country I pay taxes in.

I like to think of myself as an active American in our politics, but I get lost sometimes watching everything.

Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.

Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga.

You now have to decide what 'image' you want for your brand. Image means personality. Products, like people, have personalities, and they can make or break them in the market place.

On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.

If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

I don't know the rules of grammar. If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language.

I know of a brewer who sells more of his beer to the people who never see his advertising than to the people who see it every week. Bad advertising can unsell a product.

When someone is made the head of an office in the Ogilvy & Mather chain, I send him a Matrioshka doll from Gorky. If he has the curiosity to open it, and keep opening it until he comes to the inside of the smallest doll, he finds this message: If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

People who think well, write well

Where people aren't having any fun, they seldom produce good work.

I admire people with gentle manners who treat other people as human beings.

Never use tricky or irrelevant headlines… People read too fast to figure out what you are trying to say.

I don't believe in tricky advertising, I don't believe in cute advertising, I don't believe in comic advertising. The people who perpetrate that kind of advertising never had to sell anything in their lives

Most readers look at the photograph first. If you put it in the middle of the page, the reader will start by looking in the middle. Then her eye must go up to read the headline; this doesn't work, because people have a habit of scanning downwards. However, suppose a few readers do read the headline after seeing the photograph below it. After that, you require them to jump down past the photograph which they have already seen. Not bloody likely.

The more story-appeal there is in the picture or in the photograph, the more people would look at your ad

It is the inescapable duty of management to fire incompetent people.

People don't buy a new detergent because the manufacturer told a joke on television last night.

The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be. Before people making a buying decision, they have many questions. For example, why they should buy from you, why your product is better than other similar products, why they should trust you, and why they should buy it now, etc.

Great hospitals do two things. They look after patients, and they teach young doctors. We look after clients, and we teach young advertising people.

Don't count the people that you reach, reach the people who count