It is not enough to defend our values at home, in our newspapers and in our institutions. We also have to defend them in the refugee camps of the Middle East, and the ruined ghost towns of Syria.

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.

So little done, so much to do.

Behind every good decathlete, there's a good doctor.

How can you be afraid of women?” “Those ain’t normal women.

Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it.

The best bosses understand the people working for them. That's the first component: what makes my people tick? What are they in it for?

Hurts and disappointments can hold gifts.

A good musical comedy consists largely of disorderly conduct occassionally interrupted by talk.

Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American.

T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.

If you’re hard on yourself, life will be easy on you.