It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt.

There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who have seen the Taj Mahal and love it and those who have not seen the Taj and love it.

We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.

I did not have sexual relations with that woman

NAFTA means jobs. American jobs, and good paying American jobs. If I didn't believe that, I wouldn't support this agreement.

It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival.

Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off. It is the economic equivalent of a force of nature, like wind or water.

It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is.

I admire that about the Republicans: The evidence does not faze them. They are not bothered at all by the facts.

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.

AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it's up to the politicians to create the "comprehensive strategies" to better treat the disease.

Romance comes from the heart and is manifested in actions.

…in the library…surrounded by things far more dangerous than what roamed the school corridors. For here thoughts were housed.

I became very successful at a young age... I had lots of opportunities and lots of power and had no idea how to focus it.

To me to write well is to battle stereotypes. To write well is to create three-dimensional characters that seem human.

The greater the faith, the greater the result.

Love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship.

Film, as any immigrant will tell you, television and movies is the way we make sense of America when we first got here.

I cannot even picture myself retiring. What would I do? I'll always be doing something, asking somebody questions, even if there weren't a book.

I rented a house, recorded the stuff in a house. Just took my time 'cuz sometimes it's just rush, rush, rush. I just wanna live and play music.