Maya Soetoro-Ng Quotes

My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim.

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.

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.

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

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.

Being a parent has become incredibly important to me. I never knew how much I would be altered by my children. I would like to be remembered by them in much the way I remember my mom: as loving and kind.

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.

I think we could benefit from world history that is specifically taught in a multi-faceted fashion that allows for an understanding that perspectives on truth can be very different. I'm an advocate of an approach that endeavors to foster empathy and which tries to find a common humanity across the divide.

And that the best things that grownups do, we do for the children, and that they inspire great good in us. I also want them to remember that the world is intertwined and that 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.