One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.

People in Latin America… love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

As much as I love the Western genre, I figured if I kept doing those, I’d eventually run out of steam on that, and that would’ve been the end of it.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

Being beautiful is not so fun when you’re in a business with all men.

Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature’s forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.

I think Pat Robertson is a terrific fellow.

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don’t want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence.

Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don’t think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.

The great moments of rock ‚n‘ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

Don’t say I hate institutionalised religion – rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I’m saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

I’ll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.

I believe in a passion for inclusion.

I want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

I believe that a government has only one religion – India first. A government has only one holy book – our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion – towards nation.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

I don’t consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

Everyone does things differently on offense. Everyone’s goal is to score points.

I’m not looking to exclude people, I’m looking to include them.

On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.

My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

I’m a wandering gypsy.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

I’m trying to show everybody that I’m a girl, and I’m five foot four, and you can do anything you want, no matter your gender. It’s your world, too!

The fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

To start with, I love New York… It’s a little bit of the whole world… In New York, the whole world comes to you.

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

It’s very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

What’s fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.

Women are the engine driving the growth in California’s economy. Women make California’s economy unique.

I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It’s more fun to come to Paris.

Paris is always a good idea.

The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful.

The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.

I’m not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus‘ famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

I have been very interested and intrigued and congratulatory toward President Bush and his paintings.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

The land created me. I’m wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I’m more at home in the vacant lots.

Being a Puerto Rican artist, I support all kinds of projects that are developed on my beautiful island that in some way or another put our Puerto Rican flag up.

The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a good thing, creatively, and for food especially. That is easily a city’s biggest strength, and it is Toronto’s unique strength.

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.

If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.