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

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.

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

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.

The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.

I'm a Republican, but I find Nancy Pelosi very attractive. She hasn't done a single thing as congressman or Speaker of the House that has turned me on, but I find her quite okay.

The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.

On sorrow floats laughter.

We need a new global culture that finds the existence of millions of thirsty people thoroughly and immediately unacceptable.

Bikes are clearly a superior form of transportation when it comes to just simple getting around. A car makes sense if you need to carry a bunch of stuff.

What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.

Sometimes discipline, which means "to teach," is confused with criticism.

Even when I get the fried-chicken special of the day, I have to dig into it like it's filet mignon.

I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can.