Love is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing.

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it.

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

To be a success, water your dream with optimism and love.

All good things comes to those who wait.

Is a woman bound to wifely obedience, when the result will be to turn her out of the estate of wife?

What we do at its very, very best, at its very, very most, will shift us slightly in our seat. If only for two hours, great. If for the rest of our lives, even better.

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.

The suburbs dream of violence.

Talk to Allah in your own language with your heart fully present. Allah doesn't need you to rhyme or speak arabic.

The future is best decided by ballots, not bullets.

It's the most rewarding thing to be a civil servant.

I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.