As my Sicilian grandfather used to say, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, right?

I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty

I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.

I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not degradation.

I am against the death penalty.

The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again.

The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development

People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause.

I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality.

I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.

Do not use either harsh words or negative words. They only bring sadness and weaken the soul.

If you don't have any feelings for Will Darcy, why are you blushing and fixing your hair?

We sin not because we do not love Christ at all but because we don’t love him above all.

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life... I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.

There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.

People "confess" can be wildly different. I might go into the confessional and say, "Father, what is my obsession with miniatures?"

When people say you're going to be so different at 22 or 23, when you're 16, you're like, I'm so not! And then you change drastically.

I had always wanted to name a daughter Hailey, after Halley's comet from Once in a Lifetime.

I played at Georgia, I coached at Alabama. I know how to beat both of them.

Pink Floyd was music for rich college kids, and we were the exact f**king opposite of that.