I want to raise my kids, I want to get them through their teenage years. ... I do love my work with the UN and with PSVI so if I can do more of that and be more effective I will do whatever I can.

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.

No man deserves a woman like that. He mortgages his very soul to win her and spends his life paying off the debt.

There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.

I think things happened the way they did for a reason

It all depends on you. If you want it to be different,it will be different. Don't look at the world with your eyes but with your heart.

A man can choose his enemies but not his supporters.

Broadway is a tough, tough arena for singing.

Wal-Mart hires average people but squeezes above average performance and results out of them.

Ugly is attractive, ugly is exciting. Maybe because it is newer. The investigation of ugliness is, to me, more interesting than the bourgeois idea of beauty. And why? Because ugly is human.

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.

I can never really enjoy being famous.