It's easier to be with somebody. But it's better to be single if you're with the wrong person.

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.

And so there was a fundamental scepticism about the ability of any institution, even one like the novel, to tell us anything true.

I am slowly coming to understand with all my heart as well as my head that love is not a feeling. It is a person.

Of all sad words of tongue or pen the saddest are these: It might have been.

I didn't really think in terms of clichés or non-clichés.

The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.

The Bible is the statute-book of God's Kingdom, wherein is comprised the whole body of the heavenly law, the perfect rules of a holy life, and the sure promises of a glorious one.

Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind.

You want him to walk?" Caleb demands. "Are you insane?" "Did I shoot him in the leg?" I say. "No. He walks. Where do we go, Peter?

What we refer to confidently as memory is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling.