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.

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.

It takes a long time to wake up. That's why it doesn't happen to people who are in a hurry.

To confront death, in any guise, is to identify with the victim and face what is unsettling and sobering

Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

I believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art.

When they do let them sustain on screen from head to toe, though, then you know they must think the person is a good dancer.

Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent.

You think that just because you left, it would change how I feel? Well, guess what? You're wrong. I can't help how I feel. I'm still in-

My best advice to you: Shut up.

Mathematical Analysis is as extensive as nature herself.