There is no new world that you make without the old world.

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.

Time and tide and the ravages of sin take their toll on the most noble achievements of man.

Life is many things, but if you don't try to control it, it will take hold of you and ruin you.

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!

We're all idiots when we're young. We don't think we are, but we are. So we should be.

Yes, God is the end of your work, but He is the beginning also.

My mom is a constant in my life in so many ways.

Prison guard unions have become the powerful political forces in some states, particularly California.

See shades of grey... Act anyway

People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty