Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don't.

Stand up straight with your shoulders back.

Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping.

Make friends with people who want the best for you.

Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.

Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world.

Pursue what is meaningful not what is expedient.

Tell the truth - or at least, don't lie.

Human caused climate change threatens almost every aspect of human existence.

I want to do what I can to make the law make sense to citizens and businesses alike. I want the laws to assist them in worthwhile endeavors, not to stand as bureaucratic obstacles.

When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.

I was Mayor of New York during a great Yankees dynasty. I got to preside over the city during four Yankees championships.

I was born out of classical music.

I go to Vegas now, and I'm in the casino, and I'm gambling, and there's a guy in a wet bathing suit gambling right next to me.

I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.

It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

L'Oreal's slogan 'because you're worth it' has come to epitomise banal narcissism of early 21st century capitalism; easy indulgence and effortless self-love all available at a flick of the credit card.

The future of the Republican Party and the future of America is based on a values system and the issues that drive those values are on our side.

Anything that reduces war-related destruction should not be considered altogether immoral.

No, I was pleased that it is possible for somebody who makes full disclosure as I've done, not only of the contributors, but also how the money is spent.

New York gave me hell for that 'Purple Swag,' man. They didn't respect me until 'Peso.'

The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call.

I don't smoke, I don't drink much, I don't eat red meat. I stay out of the sun.

The best schools tend to have the best teachers, not to mention parents who supervise homework, so there is less need for self-organised learning. But where a child comes from a less supportive home environment, where there are family tensions perhaps, their schoolwork can suffer. They need to be taught to think and study for themselves.

Kissing don't last: cookery do!

Nas has always been uncomfortable with being famous and accessible. Nas makes music because he loves music, not because he wants the trappings of music, such as fame.

I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.

I get my voice from my mother's side of the family. My mother and my grandmother both had strong voices.

Sometimes great achievements arrive much later than we expect, but they arrive, and they are great.

I went into academia thinking that there'd be constant reciprocity between my scholarship and my creative work but found that doing one always turned my mind into the sort of tool that was badly suited to doing the other.