The future is like heaven-everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now.

Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity

Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent.

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

It is astonishing that in a country so devoted to the individual, so many people should be afraid to speak.

A ghetto can be improved in one way only: out of existence.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.