Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.

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.

Be one of the crowd? It went against everything a wizard stood for, and a wizard would not stand for anything if he could sit down for it, but even sitting down, you had to stand out.

The right way to start your day...Guard well within yourself with benevolence, Hateful people will always try to provoke you.

Silence is the best melody.

I can really waste a lot of time on the Internet.

We are creatures of story.

Funerals...are for the living.

Cats don't fight for their rights; they take them for granted. They have a right to be fed, watered, stroked on demand and supplied with a lap and a clean commode

At night, neurotics may toil not, but oh how they spin!

Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.

The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great length.