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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Faith and optimism come from love.