I'm shy to call myself a director still. When someone says, 'What do you do for a living?' I don't know if I've earned that.

The sun doesn't lose its beauty when covered by the clouds. The same way your beauty doesn't fade when being covered by Hijab

Different is good. When someone tells you that you are different, smile and hold your head up and be proud.

Every day we choose who we are by how we define ourselves.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

I've realized that being happy is a choice.

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don't taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

I know my children will never have to say, 'Mom died of ovarian cancer.'

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.

I'm odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.

I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.

We are all somebody to people, whose lives we do not touch.

Don’t you let nothing stop you from shining the way you supposed to! That be your job, every tick of the clock, just like them stars, until God himself tells you otherwise.

Every experience however bitter has its lesson and to focus one's attention on the lesson helps one overcome the bitterness.

I think if I could ever write with someone, I'd love to write a song with Loretta Lynn or Dolly Parton.

The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the U.N.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Thanks to Allah, who gives the palm!

Promises. I was drowning in promises.

Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.

Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.