The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down.

You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.

Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget and I'll tell you what you value.

I do not believe that we have a right to tell other people, women, that they can't control their bodies.

No Ordinary American Cares About Their Constitutional Rights

A lucky person gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they're about to do and thinks it still matters.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.

If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong.

America's leaders have to find a way to work together, rise to the challenge, and come up with solutions as bold and visionary as the people of this nation.

Loss is merely a tool for evaluation, organization, determination and actualization towards being the best you that you can possibly be.

There are situations where the best solution still doesn't make everyone happy. The trick is understanding what's best.

You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear - things like hamburgers and hot dogs - were road food, but even before they were road food, they were peasant food.

Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.

You have to think with the heart.

To solve the human equation, we need to add love, subtract hate, multiply good, and divide between truth and error.

As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.

This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives.