Along time ago I asked myself do I want to be right or do I want to be kind; I opted for kind.

I was not the kid that hung out at the arcade.

No one's just going to hand you a career. I waited for years for someone to hand me one and it never happened.

You can't make a cloudy day a sunny day, but can embrace it and decide it's going to be a good day after all.

I just had to be strong enough to allow myself to be vulnerable. Great Lesson. For art and for life.

You just have to decide how close you want them. Not every person in your life needs to be your best friend: some can be friends or just friendly acquaintances.

I try not to plan ahead. I just kind of try to think in the moment. I always believe everything will work out the way it's supposed to.

That was the most offensive thing I've ever seen in 20 years of teaching - and that includes an elementary school production of hair.

Stay fluid and roll with those changes. Life is just a big extended improvisation.

I've just always loved singing, and I come from a family that loves singing around the kitchen table.

I never went through a biological clock experience. I never even heard it ticking.

Peace is inner joy, tranquility, nonjudgmental love and universal compassion.

Celebrate my heart, at ease or on fire, in my usual featherbrained way.Horace, Roman PoetOde I-6, 23 BCE

I watched him carefully. He was making art because he has to, and because he's brave enough to try and make contact, right there on the edge of madness, where he dreams.

Hey, I used to eat at McDonald's: I liked the taste of the food, especially the French fries.

When it comes to fashion, I love skinny jeans, a simple top, and a great handbag.

The ultimate goal of all goals is to be happy. If you want to be happy make someone else happy.

The perfection of Tawheed is found when there remains nothing in the heart except Allaah

Boutique hotels are great, but they get too cute. Some hotels have shoe polish. It's like, come on, this isn't 1960. No one's polishing their shoes.

At this time I would like to encourage everyone to reach out to the ones you love. Let them have no doubt of what they mean to you.

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.