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.

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.

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

I think we could benefit from world history that is specifically taught in a multi-faceted fashion that allows for an understanding that perspectives on truth can be very different. I'm an advocate of an approach that endeavors to foster empathy and which tries to find a common humanity across the divide.

And that the best things that grownups do, we do for the children, and that they inspire great good in us. I also want them to remember that the world is intertwined and that 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.