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.

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.

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.

Faith and optimism come from love.

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.

Culture has little to do with how refined a man's intellect is

I say that what one loves is best: The midnight fastness of the heart.

To be honest with you, I never looked at soccer as a sacrifice.

Radiance belongs to being considered precisely as beautiful: it is, in being, that which catches the eye, or the ear, or the mind, and makes us want to perceive it again

Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them.

If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.

The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded.

I could fill an entire second life with working on my prints.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Business plans are the tool existing companies use for execution. They are the wrong tool to search for a business model.