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

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.

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

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.

Your brand is the value and magic that's not in your bottle, body or box. It's the inspiration, incense, intent and impact before, within and beyond.

Pain is a part of life. I hated that fact. I would be much happier without it but then it wouldn't be my life.

Praise be to God that hope is much more than how we feel on a given day. It exists outside of us

Is lawlessness to be permitted, simply because it is effected with a certain style? Jane, Jane! Where are your finer sensibilities? All o'erthrown, by a man with a golden tongue and a mocking glance?

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

I'm a craftsman. I'm an actor.

Nostalgia isn't a business model

A good trainer can hear a horse speak to him. A great trainer can hear him whisper.

In 'The Way Back' survivors were all ordinary people, and that's the whole point, that's who I felt these people should be, and they shouldn't be that hero that stands out.

It is our responsibility to learn how to speak to an audience that is less informed about music, to give it a reason to want to come and see us instead of going to the movies.