Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.

Self worth comes from loving yourself and not from what others may think of you.

I used to be snow-white . . . but I drifted.

I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing

If something needed to be written, if something needed to be polished, needed to be re-written, I was just handed pages.

My experience in growing up in Scientology is that it is both mentally and at times physically abusive.

I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.

I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.

Is it true? You had a clean getaway and risked it all for me?" I Swallowed. "It wouldn't have been a clean getaway without you.

The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.

Humility is probably the most difficult virtue to realize.