I think that some people from other regions expect us to be like that so I think they overcompensate for that sometimes and they're victims to their own insecurity.

The purpose of life is a life with a purpose. So I’d rather die for a cause, than live a life that is worthless.

A pretty face can capture my attention but only a beautiful mind can hold it.

Tell 'em the truth and they call you a traitor, Talk to 'em honestly and they call you a hater.

I'd rather be proud of what I am, rather than desperatly try to be something I'm really not; just to fit in.

Hell is not a place you go if you're not a Christian, it's the failure of your life's greatest ambition.

So when the devil wants to dance with you, you better say never, Because the dance with the devil might last you forever.

Ignorance is venomous and it murders the soul, spreading like a virus, running rampant, out of control.

Your mind is your weapon. Load your weapon.

Those people who kill women, children, and defenseless civilians are about as Muslim as mass murderer Christopher Columbus was a Christian.

If you don't have self-respect, if you don't have dignity, if you don't have some true knowledge of self and who you are, and where you're coming from, then you're absolutely lost.

Be an informed advocate and support.

Kindness is an extraordinary moment and status even if it has to be pretending.

I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

And what strange voices they have! Sometimes like the complaining of small children; sometimes like the noise of lambs.

The more I suffer, the more I love.

Choosing to be loved and to take the leap to get married younger than most of my friends was not a career-limiting decision for me.

I am more concerned about a world led by people, who think like machines.

Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good; and if the night Have gathered aught of evil or concealed, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark.

An amusing city, Chicago, any way you look at it. I'm afraid we are in for the time of our lives.