“My family had a lot of characteristics - achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations - that all seemed to be recessive in me.”

“Achievement is talent plus preparation. The problem with this view is that the closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted, the smaller the role innate talent seems to play and the bigger the role preparation seems to play.”

“As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.”

“His ambitions exceed his talent.”

“There are disappointments in all men's lives, even those who have achieved their ambition, and there are compensations.”

“True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete.”