My whole childhood was about being in the garden. It wasn't really a religious place to me. The love I felt there... was in contradiction with what I saw in the streets. It was a different world.

My father's biggest achievement with us as children was that he taught us that everyone is human and equal, even your enemy has the same needs and wants that you do: understanding, love, inclusion.

There's a deformity in the information that the public in the United Statesis receiving. It's contained in kind of a bubble and one day this bubble will explode.

The best artists transcend nationality and identity.

As a woman, you don't have really much freedom of choice in the Middle East - very often, by the time they are 13 or 14, girls get married.

You can come from China, Russia, any place, and you can be a New Yorker. You can say what you want to say here, really express yourself.

Imagine fantasy and pretend as neither fantastical nor pretended.....and then believe it.

Teamwork is the secret that make common people achieve uncommon result.

Taking the time to reflect on how you arrived at where you are today can have a massive impact on what your life will be like tomorrow.

Saigon is hot, full of atmosphere, activity, and commerce.

I read the different translations of the Bible they had and really just dove into it, almost so I could prove it all right.

There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.

Good relations with Egypt are extremely important to us. Egypt is our neighbor and the largest Arab country. The people in all Muslim countries are on our side.

They always said on TV you could do anything you wanted, but here I was trying to do something and it wasn't working. I would never be able to do it.

The outward appearance would never indicate they were brothers. (...) But she could see that at the moment they were as united as triplets in the womb.

Faults that are rich are fair.