But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.

The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.

I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.

Today, certain people file for bankruptcy, businesses and individuals, and it no longer has the stigma it once had. Now it's almost considered wise, a way to regroup and come back again.

I went to Israel when the missiles were falling there.

I love kids and I maintain that they are our future, that we adults owe them the ability to achieve their potential and that we don't own this planet. We hold it in trust for them.

Well, I think I am a very, very lucky person. I'm very fortunate.

But the courts have dismissed the lawsuits against me and Lee Brown.

In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee.

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.

My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.

The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.

BIGGER THE THOUGHT, DIFFICULT TO CAUGHT, TO SURVIVE IT TAUGHT, WITH HOPE WE FOUGHT, SUCCESS WILL BE BROUGHT.

The Wilderness holds answers to more questions than we have yet learned to ask.

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy.

The soul awakes ... between two dim eternities - the eternal past, the eternal future.

Educators are aware that they can reach the youth only by making use of gang spirit and guiding it, not by working against it.

When an artist becomes complacent, he dies.

The arrival of the unforeseen reveals the depths of one's heart.