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

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.

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.

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.

Too much fame, money or alcohol can make you stupid

We cook, we fight, we win. That simple.

I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.

That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.

All learning is remembering. A good teacher causes students to remember what they already know.

You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less

Architects are by nature and pursuit, leaders and teachers.

You can either give in to what youre feeling, just say ‘okay, enough is enough’ and be done with it, or you can fight it.

The progress in Iraq has not been without cost.

Oh, Cena. You must think that I was born yesterday.