Government that's not particularly caring and is hands off is not particularly inspiring.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.