“What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.”

Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work.

The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.

Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.

Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.

Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.

The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.

The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.

Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.

Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.

An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.

Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.

It is not arrogance to appreciate what Allah has blessed you with; arrogance is to ascribe those blessings to yourself.

The revolution should not be an individual one but a collective one.

To protect any community, we need intelligence and to nourish it we need humility.

Strive for the Hereafter according to how long you shall remain there, and strive for this world according to how long you shall remain here.

We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?

Every time I travel, government TSA officials seem to recognize that I’m a Muslim and ‘randomly’ pull me aside for ‘special treatment’.

It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ’s Church to one’s own little community.

The goal of Islam is to rule the entire world and submit all of mankind to the faith of Islam.