What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family.

In the Freudian age, parents say to their children, 'Don't be defensive,' meaning, 'You have no argument,' but I was born in the age of Rommel, when defense was considered an honorable thing.

God bless my mother - she's long gone now, but she'd work all day and go to school at night. She started out in life as a housekeeper at 15 years old, totally on her own, and she retired as a college professor. But there were some hard times. It's not easy for a woman who's only trying to do the best for her kid but who could never be home.

I love my family, love being with them, and that's what I stick to.