"I'm here to tell you that a champion is someone who has fallen off the horse a dozen times and gotten back on the horse a dozen times. Successful people never give up."

“New York is in my DNA.”

Source : "Joe Lhota: The Daily News Sitdown". Interview With Celeste Katz, www.nydailynews.com. January 18, 2013.

“Every baby moves with more ease and efficiency if allowed to do it at his own time and in his own way, without our trying to teach him. A child who has always been allowed to move freely develops not only an agile body but also good judgment about what he can and cannot do.”

Source : Magda Gerber (1998). “Dear Parent: Caring for Infants with Respect”

“Look at a crucifix. This is how I got my bride to heaven. How else do you think you will get yours there?”

“How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?”

“Gather a shell from the strewn beach And listen at its lips: they sigh The same desire and mystery, The echo of the whole sea's speech.”

Source : "The Sea-Limits". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

“Yet still we hug the dear deceit.”

Source : Nathaniel Cotton (1791). “Various Pieces in Verse and Prose: Many of which Were Never Before Published”, p.166

“I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“I think everybody who puts on a uniform for their country is a hero.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca