When you stand up there and do a press conference, it's a very preoccupied moment. You're standing in front of cameras; people are watching you; it's not so easy to be at ease.

I'm not about talking and finger-pointing and complaining; I'm about getting things done.

If you don't like me, life goes on, you know what I mean? But I hope you do like me. Because I think that in addition to being pushy, I'm nice.

It would be thrilling, obviously, to be able to have a woman and an openly LGBT person as the mayor of New York City.

I'm an aggressive woman who gets things done, and that's the way it is, and I've never been embarrassed about the fact that I am pushy.

At the end of the day, somebody someday is going to say something about you. At least you can look back and say you lived the way you wanted to.

I just want people to know you can get through stuff. I hope people can see that in what my life has been and where it is going.

Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.

The best thing to know is what you don't know.

We all think people deserve second chances. None of us are perfect.

At times, you need to be forceful to get things that are stuck unstuck.

He who wishes to gain understanding, must first depart from devilish ways.

The person who suffers most in this world is the person who has many wrong perceptions, and most of our perceptions are erroneous.

She invited him to her unexplored landHe snarled like the hungry wolf

Live your life like you're exactly who Jesus thinks you are.

I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.

If a movie is described as a romantic comedy, you can usually find me next door playing pinball.

Well, I was going to school in Germany. And in my free time I was dancing.

When you live life for yourself it's hard on everyone. And that hasn't changed. For me, if anything, it's gotten worse.

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

Walk along one day and do nothing wrong, play by the rules, be a good person, do everything right: it doesn't guarantee anything.