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

Manners. Manners will get you through anything.

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.

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 true artist creates art because they have a passion and desire to do so.

But while I have never considered myself a very good person, neither can I bring myself to believe that I am spectacularly bad one. Perhaps it's simply impossible to think of oneself in such a way.

Sudden revelations vanish just as suddenly.

Any band that doesn't have a sense of humor has a little bit of a problem.

New York City is a place where you can lock yourself up in your little studio apartment, and not go outside at all, and not feel in the slightest guilty about it.

Give me 200 active 2-year-olds and I could conquer the world.

Global war has become Frankenstein's monster, threatening to destroy both sides.

Follow the grain in your own wood.

There was never any question about it: we [with Yoko Ono] had to have a 50-50 relationship or there was no relationship, I was quick to learn.

I think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable.