I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.

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 like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I'm walking down the street.

Where does contagion end and art begin?

If you go to Germany and get drunk, at some point you will try to look up Hitler in the phone book.

Don't look for flaws as you go through life and even when you find them it is wise and kind to be somewhat blind, and look for the virtue behind them.

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them.

In the long run [censorship] will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.

There are moderates in Syria who we should be supporting.

The key issue is the shift of the centre of gravity from the West to the East, the rise of China and India.

Here at this far lost end of the continent, where the trail wagons had stopped and the people with them.

According to any textbook on dynamic meteorology, one may reasonably conclude that in a warmer world, extratropical storminess and weather variability will actually decrease.

Autism, like a rainbow, has a bright side and a dark side and even though it can mean rough weather, it can be beautiful!