Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world.

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

The pure culture is the foundation for all research on infectious disease.

Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.

I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.

There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.

If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.

Strive for excellence in few things, rather than good performance in many.

A truly free society is based on a vision of respect for people and what they value.

You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!

The Hermit is an important tarot card with much to tell us, but he tends not to be so welcome around the bonfire.

Research in this country is going down.

The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge.

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others.

I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.

I have great faith in the United States. It's the only country I would ever live in.

The poor South. Already guilty of slavery, it became guilty of cigarettes.

Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?

A liar must have a good memory. -Mendacem oportet esse memorem

Rem: The way to kill a shinigami is to make them fall in love with a human. Misa: What a wonderful way to kill.