"Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers."

"Work as hard as you can, whatever you do, and try to spread generosity of spirit."

"I don't believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility."

"To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West - know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy."

"If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate."

"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."