I'm planning on how I want to tell my own story. I feel like my situation and my experiences are unique in some ways.

For me, the best journalism is usually the best storytelling, and the best stories are those of real people.

I just found that the knowledge of ordinary Americans about Iran is very small - which is totally expected.

I'm a very hopeful person.

I think in any country you have macro situations and micro ones.

A lot will have to happen globally and personally before the stars would align.

I think that I'm a really optimistic person.

I'm always surprised when I read a story that's reported from a great distance.

Writing is an adventure. There is no way to know where it will take you, and what you will find. You could find success. You could find fans. Or, best of all, you could find yourself.

Leaders create a legacy daily.

I treat politics kind of like my religion. It’s something I believe in, but I don’t want to have to make a living at it, because if you make a living at it, you somehow become dishonest.

The real desk isn't one with four legs and a filing cabinet. It's the space of time that you stake out every day and the will with which you defend it.

I did subscribe to the freedom movement and I was much closer to the Congress than to the Akali party. It is a communal party.

My culinary wardrobe is the same as my biking wardrobe, just no shoes.

I was trying to control myself because I wanted to just park the car and jump out and do cartwheels. The next dream is to win the world championship.

Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.

Oscar Wilde said that the gods punish us in two ways: first, they don't give us what we want, then, they do. He forgot the third way: we finally see the cost of getting it.

Having scored 298 and still hitting a six is something unimaginable and you need to be a genius for that.