"We built a jet airplane to get in and out of a 5,000-ft field. No one believed it could be done."

“My father's motto has always been 'Room in the heart, room in the house.' As charming as this sounds, it translates into a long line for the bathroom and extra loads of laundry for my mother.”

Source : Firoozeh Dumas (2007). “Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America”, p.25, Random House

“So pretty much, to sum it up, if you can freak someone out and bring that kind of emotion out of somebody with a song, you're doing something right.”

“Silicon Bayou - aka Lafayette, LA - is the best kept secret reservoir of innovation mojo in America”

“The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will ever proceed from a superficial mind.”

“When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.”

“If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead, they should tell Americans that they believe in the dignity and value of every human being, from the defenseless unborn child, to the newborn with a disability, to the 90-year-old dealing with dementia.”

“The longer you have something, the stronger the bond. That's true with people as well as things.”

“As liberals are puppets in Donald Trump's show right now, all he needs to do is create any distraction and all of a sudden, the whole country is completely distracted, including the American left. We need to be laser focused on figuring out what are our values, what do we really want to be defending on the left, and how are we going to do that, coming up with the plan and moving forward.”