I know full well how important women are in diplomacy and development. I grew up with seven sisters.

Manners. Manners will get you through anything.

It's incumbent on good public servants to maintain their voices and originality of thinking.

I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we'd have long conversations.

Hillary Clinton respects good ideas wherever they come from. That's something I haven't seen in a lot of powerful people.

For every young person I meet, I learn an idea.

A simple leather jacket... has gotten me through cocktail parties in New York and cold nights in Afghanistan.

Happy Father's Day -- or as they call it in my family, happy brother-in-law's day.

You eat a lot of goat stomach when you're in North Africa. You eat whatever's put in front of you. I am a big proponent of that.

A time of solitude will always produce some fruits.

It is only dogs that never bite their masters.

Faith, it is evident, may be relied on to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation.

He exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I've ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four.

Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.

Old paradigms die hard, even if they don't work.

Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

You have to set the tone and the pace, define objectives and strategies, and demonstrate through personal example what you expect from others.

Sometimes I have a feeling, when I look back on my life, that all I've been through has prepared me perfectly for just what I'm doing now.