There's a great Lebanese restaurant a few blocks over. They have the best shawarma in the world." "What's shawarma?" "You know what a gyro is?" "No." "Same thing.

The writer who offends nobody has nothing to say.

I often tease young people about their concern for how they look; more important is inner beauty - compassion, affection and respect.

You are the first President to whom the opportunity was ever offered constitutionally to inaugurate such a day. If you fail us now, you may be the last.

Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent

Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and bring out pearls.

God is self-evident, impersonal, omniscient, the Knower and the Master of nature, the Lord of all. He is behind all worship and it is being done according to Him, whether we know it or not.

I was very politicized always. I was very conservative politically, because I'd seen what the communists did to my country.

In the way that the 15th Century discovered the New World, the 20th Century discovered the parallel continuum.

When you're public, you're at the mercy of the markets. You can be doing extremely well, but if the markets are in the tank or your industry is in the tank, you don't get rewarded for it.

Death is not too great a price for a life fully lived.