Andrew Cuomo own story taught Andrew Cuomo that as Americans, we are bound together as one people, and our country's success rests on the success of all of us, not just a fortunate few.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive

You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer.

If you must be a glutton, be a glutton for work.

Beware of pretty faces that you find, a pretty face can hide an evil mind.

The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.

God is an idea that people believe in and I spend time arguing with people that subscribe to that idea(man made idea).

This is that law of the Gospel; whatsoever you require that others should do to you, that do ye to them.

I just pinch myself, because I think if theres anything I can be proud of, Ive survived success, which I think is difficult these days.

On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe.

I'm not Dauntless - I'm Divergent. I am whatever I choose to be.