What people see in the news are places where things have not going so well.

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.

Learning is not filling up a box but seeing and imagining what we can create with it.

It's not fair!" (Ryssa)Because life was ever about fairness.Oh, to be as naive as his sister.

I don't care to dress up except when it is necessary or good for my business.

Art is difficult, transient is her reward.

I'm from Arizona where I feel like our history, as a state, is so young in comparison to some of these wonderful southern cities and towns.

Well, I grew up in the Bay Area, so I've been in earthquakes before.

We all fight on two fronts, the one facing the enemy, the one facing what we do to the enemy.

Playing Chelsea is as tough a test as you'll get in Europe these days.

What we are witnessing now is a clash of civilisations, not just between states but within them.

We'd achieve more if we chase the dream instead of the competition.