A simple leather jacket... has gotten me through cocktail parties in New York and cold nights in Afghanistan.

Manners. Manners will get you through anything.

It's incumbent on good public servants to maintain their voices and originality of thinking.

I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we'd have long conversations.

Hillary Clinton respects good ideas wherever they come from. That's something I haven't seen in a lot of powerful people.

For every young person I meet, I learn an idea.

Happy Father's Day -- or as they call it in my family, happy brother-in-law's day.

I know full well how important women are in diplomacy and development. I grew up with seven sisters.

You eat a lot of goat stomach when you're in North Africa. You eat whatever's put in front of you. I am a big proponent of that.

A life that chooses not to grow is a life that died long before it ever lived.

What do you do when you cannot see any light? Where do you go when you cannot see any path? So I became the wanderer and wandering became my destiny!

Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.

A town that has no ceiling price A town of double-talk A town so big men name her twice Like so: 'N'Yawk N'Yawk.'

May God protect me from gloomy saints.

Awareness is conscious connection with universal intelligence. Another word for it is Presence: consciousness without thought.

Years in themselves mean nothing. How we live them means everything.

When a creature has developed into one thing, he will choose death rather than change into his opposite.

My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich.

Today's decisions are tomorrow's realities.