I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we'd have long conversations.

Manners. Manners will get you through anything.

It's incumbent on good public servants to maintain their voices and originality of thinking.

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.

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.

If you are excited of an idea that no one else, all that should matter to you is focus. Progressive thinkers are driven by their interests, not whether others are interested.

Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong...For What It’s Worth

Waiting is not always a bad thing

The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?

I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.

Your reason is your friend. It defends the island of your awareness. But you don't want your reason to rule everything.

The only people who can really drain your power effectively are people you are very close to, you are open to, you love, or people you are afraid of, you fear.

Pure libertarianism believes that people will be generous and help each other. Well, they won't. I wish it were so, and I live that way.

The end never justifies the means because there is no end; there are only means.

How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.