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

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.

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.

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.

Faith and optimism come from love.

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.

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

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

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.

When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.

We need to create a society in which civility rules over cynicism and apathy.

Believe things, rather than man.

I've got to be high class... Which is sad, because I like bars.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself]

It's a bad religion to be in love with someone who could never love you.

John Cusack is a dream. I did one one-on-one scene with him and we got to shoot it so many times, and he did it different every time.

I will say that Bernie Sanders are the opposite end of the spectrum from Donald Trump. We see him leading right now in the Republican Party in an intractable way.

I know most of the photographers in Ireland. And if I don't want my photograph taken, they will leave me alone.

I feel like I experienced my 20s in all their glory and all their disastrousness.