That's a powerful way to love, when you accept your children, however they emerge, with all their peculiarities.

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.

Faith and optimism come from love.

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.

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.

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.