"When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you."

"I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong."

"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."

"The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer."

"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence."

"Faith. Trust. and Pixie Dust."