Not TV or illegal drugs but the automobile has been the chief destroyer of American communities.

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.

Raising a child whether yours or not, is being anointed by God to be the guardian of his Kingdom in a form of a child.

Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting got me sidetracked.

Life is nature's way to give mind oportunities it wouldn't otherwise had.

They think that I was like Amy Grant, when actually no! The label went bankrupt and maybe sold a couple hundred records and that's about it. I was just trying different things.

I was a child or didn't live through those presidents prior to [Ronald] Reagan, and thus didn't realize how little attention they had paid to the founders.

I dream of a church that is a mother and shepherdess.

Home, more than anything, means warmth and bed.

It is perfect to be imperfect, because perfection is made up of many imperfections put together that makes it perfect.