Faith and optimism come from love.

My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim.

You have to have a government that does give both money and energy to function in a leadership role modeling giving for the people. Government is supposed to lead by example in many cases.

Government should exist in order to help fortify the country and make those who are in need better able to meet their own.

I absolutely do believe that we need to not be so myopic. We ought to throw open widely the windows on the world in order to learn more about it.

You really need to love something or someone in order to work hard enough to be very successful. You have to believe in something and have a certain optimism.

The world is intertwined and we therefore have to be gentle in the way that we treat one another and the Earth, so that our impact on others is benevolent and good.

Government that's not particularly caring and is hands off is not particularly inspiring.

Meanness is the one thing I do get upset about on those rare occasions when I see it.

That's a powerful way to love, when you accept your children, however they emerge, with all their peculiarities.

Children come into the world with a lot of personality already imbedded in them.

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There are the relationships you make. All of the friends I made in grad school are the closest ones that I have.

The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.

I do all kind of fun things when I'm unconscious.

Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries on earth. Security issue or no security issue, there would need to be a focus on it.

Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.

I like reading, free diving and hiking. But my favorite thing to do is travel anywhere in Greece. I love everything about that place.

You feel quite strangely secure [doing any kind of series]. It's the opposite of how you're supposed to feel doing a movie.

There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing.

Continual improvisation on a theme is a more useful way to think of how to bring the various parts of life together.