"You always have to measure your desires and goals against your ego and your humility."

“I have a closet full of blazers and more striped shirts than any human could possibly wear. Somehow I think that I don't have striped shirts, and then I look at my closet and go, 'Oh, I have ten.' But then you always end up with your favourite striped shirt of the moment, and you don't end up wearing any of the other ones.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.”

Source : Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.104, Penguin

“If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter.”

Source : "Oprah Talks to Norah Jones". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. July 2003.

“Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless.”

“Islam is not a race...Islam is simply a set of beliefs, and it is not 'Islamophobic' to say Islam is incompatible with liberal democracy.”

Source : CBC News Interview, July 11, 2007.

“Every situation has changed me as a person.”

“Sometimes we choose a friend who mirrors our fantasies, dreams of a self we wish we could be.”

“A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.”