Refugees have done more for my heart and my spirit than I can ever express in words.

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.

Once a human being has arrived on this earth communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him.

You have a different kind of tenderness for everybody you know.

If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.

I try to have all my characters have a sense of humor. To me the most interesting thing is a desperate character. I think desperation is funny.

In certain almost supernatural states of the soul, the profundity of life reveals itself entirely in the spectacle, however ordinary it may be, before one's eyes. It becomes its symbol.

When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.

Whenever I feel nervous, I feel like I have to poop.

After about 25 fights you don't always have to keep going to the bathroom before the fight.

If you go, go in Peace it makes the flowers sweeter along the path.

How do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?