The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center.

It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished.

What attracts people most, it would appear, is other people.

So-called 'undesirables' are not the problem. It is the measures taken to combat them that is the problem.

If you want to seed a place with activity, the first thing to do is to put out food.

People tend to sit where there are places to sit

People very rarely think in groups; they talk together, they exchange information, they adjudicate, they make compromises. But they do not think; they do not create.

It’s not right to put water before people and then keep them away from it.

Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.

The onlooker had better wipe the sympathy off his face. What he has seen is a revolution, not the home of little cogs and drones. What he has seen is the dormitory of the next managerial class.

People do not always argue because they misunderstand one another, they argue because they hold different goals.

The foundational stone for any business, enterprise or project has to be wisdom.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong which is but saying ... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

It’d be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things. ---Rhiow

I know that all cops are not sterling characters. But you have to have someone to root for. I balance it with rotten cops who will take a bribe, who will beat somebody up.

I, Woman, am that wonder-breathing rose That blossoms in the garden of the King.

Usually we praise only to be praised.

Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory.

I thought we were out of money!? You can't simultaneously fire teachers AND tomahawk missiles.

Our goal is to create a quality of empathic connection that allows everyone's needs to be met.

Leadbelly's guitar is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame.