"My goal is to get on the national team. People joke that we'll be able to go to Beijing in 2008, but it's just jokes right now. Hopefully I'll be able to make it a reality."

“Don't use the hardships of your past as excuses to deny the possibilities of your future.”

“Believe that you are what you want to be.”

“I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school.”

“You can't just dream big -you've got to think big, and then plan big.”

“You don't think of yourself as your external representation, or even your national origin or anything like that. You don't reduce yourself to that. That's kind of unthinkable.”

Source : "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

“I don't get all the anger that is thrown at comedians.”

“I think our lives are connected by threads. We're weaving our own quilts as we go along and it has been my experience that there are so many threads that connect people. Invisible threads, strong threads, sparkling threads, but I think there is so much interconnectivity between people and I acknowledge that and I see it all the time. I think some of that is divine.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com

“The broader question if Sarah Palin becomes vice president, will she be shortchanging her kids or will she be shortchanging the country?”

Source : "'Today' Show Again Bashes Palin: Shortchange Family or America?". www.newsbusters.org. September 3, 2008.