New York is in my DNA.

I'm never surprised by the insensitivity of 'The New York Times' editorial board.

I was born a limited-government person. I've always had this streak going through me.

I still am a virulent anti-communist. It is a bad system, an immoral system, and one that takes away the rights of people and the rights of individuals. And everywhere it's gone, it's failed.

My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was a city taxi driver.

Government should steer, not row.

I was the first one in my family to go to college.

I was born here in the city, born in the Bronx. Son of a cop. One grandfather was a taxi driver; the other was a firefighter. New York is in my DNA.

Government is to point you in the right direction, and not to do everything for you.

My favorite is always the book that I'm currently reading.

My earliest memories are of my father explaining to me the American Dream and how he expected me to do better than he did.

We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them.

Dare to outlearn your best performance.

It is the darkness that makes the light visible, and not the other way around.

Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.

When you're afraid keep your mind on what you have to do. And if you have been thoroughly prepared you will not be afraid.

If you want to know how little your dignity is worth, take it to the pawnbroker.

Try to have a more expanded sense of that which you are. Feel that you are eternity. There's only goodness. There's only light.

In egotism, one is assailed by fear, he passes his life totally troubled by fear.

I ran like a cheetah - well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.

I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.