A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.

Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples' cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world.

Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.

The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.

The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society, you have a moral responsibility to society.

We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.

A secure pluralistic society requires communities that are educated and confident both in the identity and depth of their own traditions and in those of their neighbours.

There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one's own greed.

There are many interpretations of Islam within the wider Islamic community, but generally we are instructed to leave the world a better place than it was when we came into it.

Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind... That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.

Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God's creation.

Haters never win. I just think that's true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end.

I don't care what you say about me if I don't find you physically attractive.

What really swings is the music of the United States, Cuba, the Caribbean and vicinity, and, of course, Brazil. The rest is all waltzes.

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.

My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.

I waited for my first kiss.

The first casualty of any battle is the plan of attack.

In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.

It is now becoming clear that everything can - and probably did - come from nothing.

I'm flattered if any movie role and my name are mentioned in the same sentence, because there haven't been a ton of them.