Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.

I raise my stein to the builder who can remove ghettos without removing people as I hail the chef who can make omelets without breaking eggs.

When you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax.

Those who can, build. Those who can't, criticize.

If the ends don't justify the means, then what does?

[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.

Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine.

l have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake.

I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hothouses of learning do not always grow anything edible.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.

I Am excited, this is a new day and one I have never experienced nor will again. What fantabulous miracles will show up today!

When the cat gets hungry, it starts to steal.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.

The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.

i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses

The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!

Writing a book is like loving someone. It can be very painful.

Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.

Whether histories have a happy ending or not depends on when the chronicler ends the tale.