I think what children can handle and what they're interested in is much deeper than people assume. It's why sometimes we make things too simple for them.

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.

If you listen to everybody, you will be nobody.

The Soul's sacred ground of being is the foundation for your doing. -- from the book, Doing a 360, page 135

It required 85 parts by weight of oxygen and 15 parts of hydrogen to compose 100 parts of water.

I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.

Small streams don't plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He'll have us become.

The other day the grass was brown, now its green cuz I ain't give up. Never surrender.

Missionary work is not easy because salvation is not a cheap experience.

I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

When one is still and listens, one begins to be in touch with a mysterious element that is within each of us, which can transform and shape us and can help to transform the world.