Well, I think I am a very, very lucky person. I'm very fortunate.

The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.

I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.

Today, certain people file for bankruptcy, businesses and individuals, and it no longer has the stigma it once had. Now it's almost considered wise, a way to regroup and come back again.

I went to Israel when the missiles were falling there.

I love kids and I maintain that they are our future, that we adults owe them the ability to achieve their potential and that we don't own this planet. We hold it in trust for them.

But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.

But the courts have dismissed the lawsuits against me and Lee Brown.

In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee.

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.

My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.

We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.

Failures and fears are the part of the journey we call life. Don't let them stop you or derail you from your chosen path.

Intuition is the gift of knowing, hearing, feeling, or seeing through our spiritual senses.

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.

I hate caviar. Ugh! The freebase of food!

I would like to ask the many Filipino people to pray together, to help each other so that we will be able to preserve the democracy we restored 20 years ago.

Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved, most people expand under it into richer and better selves.

Isnt it lovely to know that even the great Sherlock Holmes, the quirky and genius Sherlock Holmes, is vulnerable to love as we all are?

Many Muslims honor people of other faiths and do not kill.