Some of my best friends are Hindu or Buddhist or Sikh, my students as well. This is the sea in which I swim.

We tend to gravitate towards our tribes; the challenge is to understand the people of other tribes.

The issue of "who we are" has been an ongoing one. It's part of the ongoing identity crisis of America.

I do think that the U.S. has an opportunity as a democracy to really exemplify what a religiously diverse society can be when it embraces the pluralism.

Pluralism isn't just diversity; it's something we create out of this diversity.

I guess one of the things that is an advantage of the world in which we live is that I can at least I can have multiple homes. I can have that attachment to Montana and to Cambridge and to India.

The idea of going on a spiritual journey is really part of the DNA of India itself.

We are built on a structure of the freedom of religion and the non-establishment of religion. That really is a pretty sturdy rudder for the U.S.

There are two great things that we need to find in life: one is love, probably the most important, and the second is work, and they compete with one another from time to time.

Be prepared for changes.

That is the strength of having a trusting and ongoing relationship that draws on our history and moves right on into our present, and I have that kind of marriage.

Legends are born in solitude. Idiots are born in packs.

The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.

Every night she wrote in that ledger.

Since a politician never believes what he says he is surprised when others believe him.

We can invent only with memory.

I'm not gonna lie, I love the holidays. But Christmas was a lot more fun when you weren't paying for it.

Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time.

Be yourself... And shoot for the stars. Obviously dreams really do come true.

I grew up as a little 4- and 5-year-old kid, watching Phil Tippett and my dad make monsters in our garage. That's what I did, as a child.

Don't fix me; Love me for what's broken.