I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel 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.

Street League Skateboarding is the premier professional skateboarding league in the world, with the biggest prize money in history.

According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.

I've had a hell of a lot of fun and I've enjoyed every minute of it.

Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil-but there is no way around them.

You have to have confidence. You can't be someone who's so insecure that she's a basket case.

Sometimes I just want to be left alone and be a normal kid for, like, five minutes. That's tough when the paparazzi are chasing you.

I’ve just had enough of people misrepresenting me. Get to know me and see who I am.

If I knew where the good songs came from, I’d go there more often. It’s a mysterious condition. It’s much like the life of a Catholic nun. You’re married to a mystery.

What doesn't kill you, usually succeeds in the second attempt.

Justice is having and doing what is one's own.