Raising the minimum wage allows business people to stop thinking about workers simply as costs to be cut and allows you to start thinking about workers as customers to be cultivated.

The fundamental law of capitalism is: when workers have more money, businesses have more customers, and need more workers. The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.

When businesspeople take credit for creating jobs, it's a little like squirrels taking credit for creating evolution. In fact, it's the other way around.

If it was true that lower taxes for the rich and more wealth to the wealthy leat to job creation, today we would be drowning in jobs.

I was at the forefront of the effort to pass $15 minimum wage in Seattle, and have been collaborating with the people who are trying to make that happen across the country.

The most pro-business thing you can do is to help middle-class people thrive.

The only reason to have a 300-foot-long boat is because they're bigger than 200-foot-long boats.

Raising the minimum wage a lot across the board would make a big difference. It's not the only thing, but it's an indispensable part of solving the problem.

The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.

Raising the overtime threshold - something that is about to happen. This is more complex so not as many people understand it, but it's equally consequential.

The overtime threshold is to the middle class as the minimum wage is to low-wage workers.

Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you for Paris is a movable feast.

Do you wish to make of your enemy a friend? Then become a friend to your enemy.

I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions.

The Friend asks no return but that his Friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

You know what it was like? It was like thinking I was heading to a surprise party and instead it was a surprise pap smear.

There is no yajna (sacrifice) greater than spinning calculated to bring peace to the troubled spirit, to soothe the distracted student's mind, to spiritualize his life.

The Dalai Lama has been extremely interested in science since his childhood.

When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple.

But now - look, I have to take care of myself. I work out every day. I'm a dancer. I've always been an athlete, and I'm one of those people who start to go crazy if they don't run or do something.