There are irrational fears. If you see a woman wearing a hijab and fear is your first thought, something's really wrong.

America has an immense amount of power, but it doesn't use it in any benevolent way. It uses it to maintain a status quo.

America is about choices, including those to live certain lifestyles.

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

Language is the crowning achievement of human beings, and that is something Muslims have always known and revered. We are a literate people whose miracle is a Book from an unlettered man, peace and blessings be upon him, who was the most articulate and eloquent human being who ever lived. We honor our Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, in honoring language that he loved so much and used so well.

Force yourself to be humble, until it becomes second nature. Then it will be an unconscious activity.

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.