“I don’t look at the criticism anymore. If somebody calls me fat, even in a vulnerable moment, I laugh to myself and think, I’m doing everything I can, so there’s nothing I can do about it.”

If you’re living your life in fear, then you’re just not living.

Every life has a purpose. Share your story and you may help someone find their own.

Your imperfections make you beautiful, they make you who you are.

If I help one person out with getting through the struggles that I’ve had, then I’ve done my job on this planet and this life.

Do what makes you happy, and don’t care what others think.

You have the capability to change your life all with a simple shift in perspective.

Whatever you dream of doing one day, don’t give up on that dream because you never know where it can take you.

Don’t let anything or anyone define you. You are what you are because of what you make of tough situations in your life.

My stepdad provided me with an amazing childhood. I played outside like a normal kid, I rode my bike, I walked to school, but the happiest times were when I was acting.

Music is my life. Music runs through my veins. Music inspires me. Music is a part of me. Music is all around us. Music soothes me. Music gives me hope when I lose faith. Music comforts me. Music is my refuge.

Go where you are wanted and stray from where you aren’t. Surround yourself with positive people and environments.

Sometimes I think, ‘Why couldn’t I have been normal?

It’s amazing what you can hide just by putting on a smile.

I never thought that I’d be a role model. Everyone kind of just made me a role model, and I hated that.

You can’t love other people until you love yourself.

An impact is like a punch it may hurt put it passes.

I don’t want people to say, ‘Something is true because Tyson says it is true.’ That’s not critical thinking.

There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe.

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

If critics have problems with my personal life, it’s their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it’s the charts that count.

No, I don’t think it’s fair to label Islam ‘violent.’ But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever gone into hiding for criticizing the Amish.

Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.

If you never get criticized, chances are you aren’t getting anything done.

Criticism is the essence of creation.