Hillary Clinton respects good ideas wherever they come from. That's something I haven't seen in a lot of powerful people.

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.

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.

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.

A strong woman builds her own world. She is one who is wise enough to know that it will attract the man she will gladly share it with.

Racism hurts everyone, including racists themselves.

There is no economic law that says that everyone, or even most people, automatically benefit from technological progress.

Krishna taught in the Bhadavad Gita: ‘karmanyeva-adhikaraste ma phalesu kadachana’, which means, ‘Be active, never be inactive, and don’t react to the outcome of the work.

A movie should be as long as one can hold their bladder

There are no little fights for me. I consider every fighter dangerous. You lose when you think a fighter is not on your level and then he comes in hungrier than you. That will never happen to me.

My kids and I make pasta three days a week now. It's not even so much about the eating of it; they just like the process. Benno is the stuffer, and Leo is the catcher. They've got their jobs down.

To bear lightly the neck's yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure.

Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity, but with it you can accomplish miracles.

I looked into his eyes, and I realized he was the same man I'd seen in my dreams. His face might be totally different, but the same soul was in there, the same intelligence and all the sadness.