Born on March 1st

"Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature."

"The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school."

"I am a very public person. I have nothing to hide."

"If China was like the moon, then arriving in Saudi Arabia was Mars. At least you can see the moon from Earth."

"Our religious police has the most dangerous effect on society - the segregation of genders, putting the wrong ideas in the heads of men and women, producing psychological diseases that never existed in our country before, like fanatacism."

"Why don't we actually fight for a woman's right even to complain about being beaten up. That is more important than driving. If a woman is beaten, they are told to go back to their homes - their fathers, husbands, brothers - to be beaten up again and locked up in the house."

"I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world."

"My father established the first women's university in the kingdom, abolished slavery, and tried to establish a constitutional monarchy that separates the position of king from that of prime minister."

"On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate."

"There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong."

"In the field of mindfulness & peace, be present in this breath, for it is the only moment where life is actually happening."

"Peace is not the silence of the storm, but the calm center you maintain within yourself. As a creative innovator, this is the foundational truth I have observed."

"Let go of the weight of yesterday, and receive the clear canvas of this present day."

"As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'"

"The Lord has never spoken to me, but I feel Chick-fil-A has been His gift."

"People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that."

"Sundays are for Dim Sum. While the rest of America goes to church, Sunday School, or NFL games, you can find Chinese people eating Cantonese food."

"I'm so sick of people misunderstanding Asians in America and what we're about."

"I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything."

"I don't think people in America understand race, and how deep the hooks of whiteness there are in our consciousness."

"For me, juicing isn't about binging and cleansing; I try to incorporate it into a balanced diet."

"I don't want to get burned when I'm cooking. To avoid getting hit when pan-frying, I stand far away and use chopsticks that are almost two feet long. I learned it from my mom, who does the same thing."

"When I feel off, I read the 'Tao Te Ching' to get my equilibrium right. I started reading it in the eleventh grade."

"I'll always be Chinese first. It probably isn't politically correct to say or something that the majority understands; I can change my shoes, I can swap my passport, but, I'll always have this face."

"I'll always be American in my world view and allegiance. American in the naive way I go to other countries and tell them how they should treat their poor or clean their water."

"I choose to be American, I choose to live in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, I choose to have Puerto Rican/Jewish neighbors, and I choose to maintain my Chinese identity."

"I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok."

"My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth."

"I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent."

"I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations."