The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.

Now, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

Men and women aren’t the same. And they won’t be the same. That doesn’t mean that they can’t be treated fairly.

Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.

The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.

We are all alike, on the inside.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

Alternative R&B is in my soul. It’s not going anywhere.

We can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

There are a lot of groups that feel a little bit strange around me, because I am inclusive.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they’re not discriminated on the job.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.

I started out as a poet. I’ve always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

As I got older, my pops tried to keep me involved with the culture by telling me the stories of the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, how he came to America, and about our family back home, because all that side of my family – my aunties, grandparents – is in Africa.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

I love tango, and I used to dance when I was young.

One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term ‚reform‘ is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.

It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.

I only act from my heart.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it’s their path, it’s what excites them, it’s what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

I’ve still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, ‚You know, that’s the truth. I wasn’t there, and I wasn’t a six-foot black girl, but that’s the truth.‘

I’m first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can’t say why I’m one.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

All of these young people have some kind of potential in them. And if we don’t invest in them as a nation, regardless of where they come from or what color they are, if we don’t invest in them, we lose.

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren’t like them.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

On ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ I wouldn’t care what I was playing – I would play a corpse, ‚cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?… It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

For a while… to be an evangelical meant you were a white Republican, and you were against this and against that. I don’t want to be put into that mold, because then people judge you before they even listen… I don’t want to divide the very people I am trying to reach.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

I would say that jazz is my own language.

We still have many neighborhoods that are racially identified. We still have many schools that even though the days of state-enforced segregation are gone, segregation because of geographical boundaries remains.

I disagree with any policy that would turn America’s back on people who are fleeing harm. I frankly believe that it is contrary to everything that we have symbolically and actually said we stand for.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

I do things I love doing. Sometimes that is maybe going out to have a drink with friends, going out partying or whatever.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

All fat women look the same; they all look 42.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?