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.

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

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

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

Meanness is the one thing I do get upset about on those rare occasions when I see it.

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.

The world is intertwined and 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.