Freedom is not a gift but an achievement that must be won every day.

I said, 'I will build you this incredible, gorgeous, gleaming hotel. I will put people to work in the construction trades and save hotel jobs and the Grand Central area will come around.' So the city made the deal.

I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.