I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn’t marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

I’ve been known to have a good step or two. I’m half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.

Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.

Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot.

My mother always used to say, ‚Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God‘ – that’s what she always said. The same God with different names.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

Brad and I have never wanted our kids to be actors, but we also want them to be around film and be a part of Mommy and Daddy’s life and for it not to be kept from them, either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.

My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

Racism is real in this country.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

I like being with my family. That’s my party.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

Everyone is different. Everyone has different teams they’ve played on, coaches they’ve played for.

We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don’t believe in it.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.

If something inconveniences my children too much or takes me away from them, I won’t do it.

My dream is to be World Lightweight Champion in the UFC. Have more money than I know what to do with. And have a great life for my kids, grandkids, and everyone in my family.

We’re African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

I grew up around lots of men – my father, my brothers, my uncles – so I wasn’t intimidated by them.

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I’d listen to Italian music.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country – I know, because I am one of them.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn’t matter if you have a beautiful face or not.

If you’re the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I’m a parent. I have daughters.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real.

Honolulu is a melting pot.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.

Like it or not, there are a lot of dance teachers in this country who respect me, whether they personally like me or not.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

Maria is the best reason to come home.

I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.

The word ‚Islam‘ means ‚peace.‘ The word ‚Muslim‘ means ‚one who surrenders to God.‘ But the press makes us seem like haters.

I can’t help the way you was born if you was gay.

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.