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

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.

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

The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.

I felt peace, even though I was still scared to death. I thought that, whatever would happen to me - I could still be killed. I didn't know - and in what I'd already been through, God was in control.

Folk art has never been much about politics; it's about action and utility.

I believe that visualization is one of the most powerful means of achieving personal goals.

Well, thats the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it.

An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.

Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.

I kind of like working fast.

Always remember, indecision is decision - usually against you.

First of all, convince yourself that you are the best because the rest of your life is going to go proving this to others.