It makes me feel like a woman. It makes me feel that all the things about my body are suddenly there for a reason. It makes you feel round and supple, and to have a little life inside you is amazing.

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.

Common sense is a tool that isn't in everyone's shed.

I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.

I grew up a diehard Yankees fan.

For as long as he could remember, he’d suffered from a vague nagging feeling of being not all there.

The forceful and violent will not die from natural causes.

I've suffered from pretty dark depressing times, and it's probably - not probably - it is the reason why I chose to lead a healthy lifestyle.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

You have to put yourself in a situation, a lifestyle, that makes you do the work. Even if it's a monastery.

I had to learn chord shapes... I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.