I wanted to educate myself about the world and I wanted to know what was happening to people in other countries. I feel now I have only just begun.

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.

Flying a good airplane doesn't require near as much attention as a motor car.

A lot of great creativity comes from restrictions.

The task of the historian is to understand the peoples of the past better than they understand themselves.

I wonder if what makes a family a family isn't doing everything right all the time but, instead, giving a second chance to the people you love who do things wrong.

Its five o'clock some where

It's a hard thing to explain to other people because it sounds very superficial and nepotistic, but doing the interview is actually a very deep, dream-fulfilling aspect of relationship.

Every time you change your orders without obvious reason, you weaken your authority.

It's hard, when you're up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp.

Man is an ape with possibilities.

You think Vietnam was bad? Vietnam is nothing next to Kosovo.