Manners. Manners will get you through anything.

A simple leather jacket... has gotten me through cocktail parties in New York and cold nights in Afghanistan.

For every young person I meet, I learn an idea.

I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent... I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children.

Manners. Manners will get you through anything.

I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we'd have long conversations.

I know full well how important women are in diplomacy and development. I grew up with seven sisters.