I raise my stein to the builder who can remove ghettos without removing people as I hail the chef who can make omelets without breaking eggs.

When you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax.

Those who can, build. Those who can't, criticize.

If the ends don't justify the means, then what does?

Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.

[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.

Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine.

l have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake.

I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hothouses of learning do not always grow anything edible.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.

I have my moments, ” he mused.“They’re few and far between, ” Icountered, grinning

An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.

Dance allows confidence to grow and inhibitions to fall away, and I pride myself on building people's confidence.

there's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody. ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.

There is nothing the Lord has asked of us that in faith we cannot accomplish.

I'm 31 years old and can't complain about the money I make and the smiles I can create on people's faces.

I think we all need to be looking to the better angels of our own selves. We don't need to be looking for great people so much as becoming great people.

Leave the oil in the soil, leave the coal in the hole.

To throw awayan honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away.

When an archer shoots for enjoyment, he has all his skill; when he shoots for a brass buckle, he gets nervous; when he shoots for a prize of gold, he begins to see two targets.