"I hardly ever go to showbiz parties, it's not my style. That doesn't mean to say I don't have a good time. I love hanging out with mates."

“Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.”

“I wake up every morning and say to myself, Well, I'm still in New York. Thank you, God.”

Source : "The Proust Questionnaire: Ed Koch". Vanity Fair interview, www.vanityfair.com. February 2013.

“It's better to see God in everything than to try to figure it out.”

“When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly.”

“We are witnessing a slow, steady takeover of our true freedoms. We are becoming a socialist nation, and whoever can't see this is probably hoping it isn't true. If we permit Mr. Obama to take over all our industries, if we permit him to raise our taxes to support unconstitutional causes, then we will be in default. This great America will become a paralyzed nation.”

“I look at someone like Kathryn Bigelow, and I have so much admiration. She's playing in the boy's sandpit, and winning.”

“A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.”

“I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.”

Source : "The Saturday interview: Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales". Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2011.