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

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.

Government should exist in order to help fortify the country and make those who are in need better able to meet their own.

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.

Being a parent has become incredibly important to me. I never knew how much I would be altered by my children. I would like to be remembered by them in much the way I remember my mom: as loving and kind.

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

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.