People came as immigrants from all over the world, and Hindu and Muslim and Buddhist and Sikh communities became part of the landscape of the U.S.

We tend to gravitate towards our tribes; the challenge is to understand the people of other tribes.

The issue of "who we are" has been an ongoing one. It's part of the ongoing identity crisis of America.

I do think that the U.S. has an opportunity as a democracy to really exemplify what a religiously diverse society can be when it embraces the pluralism.

Pluralism isn't just diversity; it's something we create out of this diversity.

I guess one of the things that is an advantage of the world in which we live is that I can at least I can have multiple homes. I can have that attachment to Montana and to Cambridge and to India.

The idea of going on a spiritual journey is really part of the DNA of India itself.

We are built on a structure of the freedom of religion and the non-establishment of religion. That really is a pretty sturdy rudder for the U.S.

There are two great things that we need to find in life: one is love, probably the most important, and the second is work, and they compete with one another from time to time.

Be prepared for changes.

That is the strength of having a trusting and ongoing relationship that draws on our history and moves right on into our present, and I have that kind of marriage.

Well done is better than well said.

Whatever free time I get, I love to catch news and sports shows.

Politicians are easy to attack, but frankly, we are all guilty of not meeting the needs of Africa's young people properly.

My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women in my life has been an enormous value.

Life is like a field of newly fallen snow. Where I choose to walk every step will show.

The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue.

The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.

Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

God makes originals not carbon copies. It's okay to be inspired by someone, but be bold enough to be yourself.