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.

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

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.

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.

How shall I ever learn who I am when there is so much of me that belongs to someone else?

It's what he needs, and whether he ever admits it to us or not, it's what he loves" - Theoden (From Commanded:House of Theoden)

If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall.

When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.

Someone once said, 'That place is engulfed in darkness'- however that does in no way mean that there was never any light.

Have you ever sent a loved son on vacation, and had him returned to you in a pine box, so horribly battered and water-logged that someone needs to tell you this sickening sight is your son, lynched?

Once the Government Accountability Office did a review of food safety systems in other countries and found many things about those food safety systems that were better than ours [American].

Our sexual energy, when not properly mastered, is transformed into anger.

Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!

Worrying about next, tomorrow cripples our ability to think, act and exercise faith in the present and the present only is ours.