If we cannot end the conflict, we have an inescapable moral duty to help refugees and provide legal avenues to safety.

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 writers are a crazy group. I can't think of any other profession where the actual work is deep within, uncomfortable, and wanting out.

You must see challenges as virtues of opportunities for personal development. You will then have the strength to overcome the challenge.

I've always liked older ladies, ever since my mother would have B'nai B'rith at our house.

Canada has sent an army of 1,000 soldiers to occupy the Muslim country of Afghanistan (and ships to the Persian Gulf).

I went over to the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday and saw some big men of war, one over 100 guns.

I never read comics as a kid. I guess I was lazy and watched cartoons instead.

I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.

Economists can certainly disappoint you. One said that the economy would turn up by the last quarter. Well, I'm down to mine and it hasn't.

I listened to a mind joint, and I wanted to do my own version of it, and what you hear on my mixtape is my take on what the whole CD sounds like.