I went to public school but kept to myself. When you live in a brothel, you don't want anyone coming to your home.

All I wanted was you. I tore down my wall for you. Now it's been rebuilt.

And a woman needs a man to protect her from other men. Well, women used to. . . . Things have changed. Women are in the middle East, fighting and protecting men now.

DNA predisposes a certain behavior, but if your environment doesn't support it, then that behavior won't manifest. When people don't have opportunity, they have to create their own opportunities

Some crazy man came up to me and started screaming at me about how he hated Allah, and before I could tell him that my family was part of the Catholic Church in India, he knifed me.

A woman of European heritage sporting a preacher's collar had the opposite effect of a Muslim woman wearing a hijab. She used her privilege and the favored religion to look like a golden child.

We wear on our faces the results of what we believe and how we behave, and such behavior is most evident in the eyes and on the faces of those who have lived many years.

Then I wondered, what if?What if he kissed me? What if he told me I was beautiful? What if he told me he loved me?What would I say in return?

I want to make people around me happy, because I never know that laughter I gave to them would be my last gift I could offer.

The one ring, to rule them all’? Sounds very far-fetched to me!

A man of courage is also full of faith.

The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.

Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.

You should never be proud of doing the right thing. You should just do it.

I always learn something from every actor I've ever worked with. I always pick something from them.

I’d like them to say that Shirley Chisholm had guts. That’s how I’d like to be remembered.