Muhammad Ali put an end to the idea that you can't be an American and a Muslim.

I can't - and won't - impose my beliefs on others, either verbally or otherwise. I'm not going to judge people.

In the Communist period, the revolutionaries, the leaders were almost always - Che Guevara, people like that - they were always from the middle class and the educated. And empathy is a very powerful emotion.

Practice makes permanent, not perfect. If you practice the wrong thing, you make the wrong act permanent.

I don't have any control over what other people do, and they don't represent me or my faith.

Why do we need to justify God's existence? He exists. We need to justify our own existence.

My experience on this planet is that if you treat people with respect, they tend to treat you with respect.