Almost every great innovation was [created] by government.

You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.

Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget and I'll tell you what you value.

I do not believe that we have a right to tell other people, women, that they can't control their bodies.

No Ordinary American Cares About Their Constitutional Rights

A lucky person gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they're about to do and thinks it still matters.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.

If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong.

America's leaders have to find a way to work together, rise to the challenge, and come up with solutions as bold and visionary as the people of this nation.

EARLY BIRDOh, if you’re a bird, be an early birdAnd catch the worm for your breakfast plate.If you’re a bird, be an early early bird--But if you’re a worm, sleep late.

The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.

Silence descended on the house. [....] Amma must have sensed that this was the sort of silence that, left unchallenged, could consume the family from within.

I could decorate a whole city with books!

I have a romantic side.

On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a man.

We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares

If your child is more important than your vision of your child, life becomes easier.

The deepest and rarest kind of courage has nothing to do with feats or obstacles in the outside world; and, indeed, has nothing to do with the outside world - it is the courage to be who you are.