Another benefit of going to Cornell is that 90 percent of your friends are doctors.

My parents are from Ghana. Until I was 17, I thought you had to go to college. I had no idea. I didn't know it was not an option.

What's nice about having an engineering degree is everybody thinks you are smart.

Every culture feels like their parents are the most stringent as far as, "We came to this country to work hard, we want you to be a doctor or a lawyer."

I grew up listening to blues and rock 'n' roll and other music, but, legitimately, the Stones is one of my favorite bands in the world.

Never would I have thought that I would meet Mick Jagger, much less be working on the same project.

Jason Bourne is supposed to be really sneaky and spry, but as soon as he walks by, everybody pulls out their cell phones and starts recording. That level of fame is wild to see.

We all want to live a happy life, so we have to learn to live together in trust and mutual respect.

In the arithmetic of love one plus one equals everything and two minus one equals nothing.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.

A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

If ever a player was out of his class that night it was me.

There is a very fine line between love and nausea.

I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior.

The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go.