There is no shame in being a survivor of sexual violence. The shame is on the aggressor.

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.

love is myself in the mirror.i will see love every time.

A writer doesn’t solve problems. He allows them to emerge.

The right mixture of caring and not caring - I suppose that's what love is.

You have not lived a perfect day even though you have earned your money unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Again and again, when Westerners are perceived as denigrating Muhammad, the Koran, or Islam, Islamists demonstrate, riot or kill.

If you walk into a coffee shop in 1903 Vienna, you might find at the same table the artist Gustav Klimt, Sigmund Freud, Leon Trotsky and possibly Adolf Hitler, who lived in Vienna at the same time.

Whilst you live a very little religion seems enough; but believe me, it requires a great deal when you come to die.

Like my mother said, you can't go back to holding hands

One woman's poise is another woman's poison.

A lot of people have pretty little heads, but it's difficult to find a pretty little mind.