Chick-fil-A is not welcome in New York City as long as the company's president continues to uphold and promote his discriminatory views.

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.

Aren't we constantly discovering how mistaken some of our cherished beliefs were? That is what progress is. We learn continually to cast aside outgrown notions and adopt wiser and better ones.

life is too short to despise people who simply can't help what they've done.

You live in a deranged age - more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!

True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities.

I was very much into science when I was young - I wanted to be a marine biologist, then I wanted to be a doctor, and then something else, I was always changing.

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

War is not something that can be won. Everybody loses at war.

Instead of me having a breakdown, I'm focusing on me having a breakthrough.

It's kinda hard to be optimistic, When your homies lying dead on the pavement twisted.