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.

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

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.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.

Fully fund the construction of a wall on our southern border. Don't worry about it. Remember, I said Mexico is paying for the wall.

To be part of building a movement, you have to keep moving.

Most of the songs came from Europe and Africa and now they were coming back to us. Many of [Bob] Dylan's best songs came from Scotland, Ireland or England. It was a sort of cultural exchange.

It's just that with football, when you don't get the ball, you can't show your talents and that's always been something in the back of my mind.

Art is not emotion. Art is the medium in which emotion is expressed.

There's nothing like self-improvement to get your friends to like you for who you were.

You don't destroy what you want to acquire in the future.

The highly motivated young people who comprise the backbone of our military force truly are taking their place as one of America's greatest generations.