Arafat's departure has created an awesome opportunity.

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.

there's something wrong with any art that makes a woman all bust

Building on a bond is bankable. Building on bitterness is bankrupt.

People don't pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be number one.

Open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openness of the living moment.

Meditation means to be free from all phenomena and calmness means to be internally unperturbed. There will be calmness when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.

The biggest thing that comes out of improv that gets built on is just character traits. You know, for me the singing was born out of improv.

What I find interesting is that the people that follow your Twitters are called 'followers.' Talk about false idolatry, right?

Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists.

I was never interested in what everybody else was interested in. I was very interiorized. I always felt kind of sad.

My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of thinking about people and the world that are different from my own, sometimes radically different.