“Colleges produce more sports therapists than engineers. Perhaps because America is a sporty country: a lot of outdoors.”

“The three ordinary things that we often don't pay enough attention to, but which I believe are the drivers of all success, are hard work, perseverance, and basic honesty.”

“It is the strength of our culture that we can have Sonia Gandhi, who is Catholic, a Sikh prime minister, and a Muslim president.”

“There are three lessons in philanthropy - one, involve the family, especially the spouse. She can be a remarkable driver of your initiative. Two, you need to build an institution, and you need to s...”

“The job of nation building, the job of nation leadership in a difficult, complex coalition has worked.”

“You need a commitment which is long term and a commitment to leadership, because that's the only way you build excellence.”

“What people these days watch!?...Nothing useful!Science proofs that people watch shit over and over and over and over and over and over.”

“In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.”

“Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.”

“The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.”

“When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of 'Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.'”

“Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia.”

“The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.”

“There is no such thing as part freedom.”