"I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me."

"When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things."

"You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it."

"Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant."

"We need much less than we think we need."

"I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'."

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

"Your hands can't hit what your eyes can't see."

"As long as you're in your right mind, you can't be defeated."

"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up."

"I'm a Muslim. I've been a Muslim for 20 years. I'm against killing and fighting and all that."

"Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life."

"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school."

"I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked."

"I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want."