I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.

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!

If you're not quite cognizant of your madness, then you're deliberately blindfolded to your supposedly fake reality

There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.

Let every one ascertain his special business and calling, and then stick to it if he wants to be successful.

That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.

British and American women have very different styles and a different way of living.

In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer.

When I hear a grown man or woman say, "Once I had faith in men, now I have not," I am inclined to ask, "Who are you whom the world has disappointed? Have not you rather disappointed the world?"

The man who does not know the nature of the Law, cannot know the nature of sin.

I was minding my own buisness long before you and the princess started humping like rabbits.