I was very into math and calculus, and just always was very - really interested in that. But any sort of numbers.

The American people want to have trust in their leaders.

What we've tried to do is have neighbors, colleagues, friends and family talking.

I was the best man at my younger brother's wedding and at the time part of my roast to him was I appreciated that he's done the only profession that makes me look good, running a used car dealership.

This is a basic function of Congress to keep the government running. And so, what we ought not to do is play politics with those who have been affected by disasters.

Methodical thinking is of more use in Chess than inspiration

Success is more about doing the things you know you should do than discovering the secrets you don't yet know.

I get sidetracked very easily.

If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.

Being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.

A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.

I hope to keep working with television. I wouldn't mind doing more.

In my view, the critical questions in this era of mass incarceration are: What disturbs us? What seems contrary to expectation? Who do we really care about?

My parents are really conservative. My dad is Muslim, and my mom is the most conservative woman you've ever met. They're very aristocratic in the most quaint suburban way.