The importance of human life should be universally respected – and that refers to children before they are born and after. All children have the right to be brought up in a loving two-parent family where the notion of divorce is not even possible.

I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu’ran easily at the age of five.

The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it’s not perfect, that’s okay, there are a lot more coming along.

But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people.

Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.

One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That’s the way we live.

I am healthy, my family is healthy. That is the important thing. After that we go racing.

Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world.