Behavior shapes emotions.

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.

Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination.

There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.

Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly developed form of order.

While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.

The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.

This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.

People must take a modicum of public responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other.

This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other.

The best way to honor past accomplishments is by building on top of their breakthroughs.

I love collaborating with different people.

I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song.

We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.

Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously.

A good rule of conversation is never answer a foolish question.

Never rest on your oars as a boss. If you do, the whole company starts sinking.

Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark.

Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.

Bakers bake bread, accountants manage accounts and entrepreneurs turn ideas into reality.