To me, charity often is just about giving, because you’re supposed to, or because it’s what you’ve always done — or it’s about giving until it hurts.

You shouldn't have to leave your neighborhood to live in a better one.

We've got to decide that we want to live in a world that is sane and happy and healthy, and that everyone deserves that.

Environmental justice [means that] no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other.

Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.

If we are going to be part of the solution, we have to engage the problems.

Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.

Neither the Destruction of the Ninth Ward Nor the South Bronx Was Inevitable

We want to bring enterprise back to blighted urban areas. People there have been told nothing is ever going to change. The policy makers may feel the same way.

I'm not letting go of you" - Sam

Sticks and stones may break my bones But words can never harm me.

The American economy has been built and sustained by risk-taking entrepreneurs whose pioneering ideas and hard work gave birth to flourishing businesses.

To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.

You cannot say that all experience is of equal value for all people.

In the evening Everything has a schedule, if you can find out what it is.

One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.

When told a script was full of old cliches: Let's have some new cliches.

When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

Each experience in your lifewas absolutely necessary in order to have gotten you to the next place, and the next place, up to this very moment.