A very long time ago, some 2.5 million years B.C., the mother of human species as we know it, our ultimate ancestor, appeared in East Africa... She was four feet tall and probably black..

You should have goals so big that you are uncomfortable telling your friends about them.

Loving a person doesn’t make them who you desire

I have a bold plan to break from the Bloomberg years, and end the 'Tale of Two Cities' by providing real opportunity to all New Yorkers, no matter where they live.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius.

May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.

If only Vivien Leigh had stayed in England, that part would have been mine.

Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect.

I want to take human rights out of their box. I want to show the relevance of the universal principles of human rights to the basic needs of health, security, education and equality.

If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.