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.

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?

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

[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.

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.

Trust God’s process and timing~ He’s got you covered!

We don't posses time. But we can own whatever we do with it.

Tranquil pleasures last the longest we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.

Life deals you a lot lessons, some people learn from it, some people don't.

Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

By giving words to these intimate experiences I can make my life available to others.

We did some massive flirting in front of the nation, but there was never anything more than that.

I want to breathe in the Spiritual.