Like every mother, my wish - every birthday - is for my children to stay healthy (and) for my family to remain healthy.

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.

Metaphysical speculation is independent of the physical validity of the Big Bang itself and is irrelevant to our understanding of it.

You don't look so much like a great hero, ' Jarrah said. 'I'm pretty sure I'm not, ' Mack said wearily. 'My throat is hoarse from screaming in terror. I don't think heroes have that problem.

Before you point fingers at someone, clean them well. You better remove that log on your lens before you can see the speck on someone's own afar!

In a just world, there would be no possibility of 'charity'.

For me to get an award from the press, I know there's been no favoritism.

Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.

My parents worked enormously hard to put four children through college. We didn't have a lot of money.

Imagination is seeing with the eye of God.

On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape key.

We borrow from nature the space upon which we build.