Advanced cultures are usually sophisticated enough, or have been sophisticated enough at some point in their pasts, to realize that foxes shouldn't be relied on to guard henhouses.

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 darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.

In a relationship, it is not what you ask and receive that delights. It is receiving what you wanted but never asked

The African-America n experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.

You must accept it as it is, and hence accept all consequences. A wall is indeed a wall.

I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first.

The saving principles and doctrines of the Church are established, fixed, and unchangeable.

I haven't yelled at anybody today. It's been a slow day.

They've finally come up with the perfect office computer. If it makes a mistake, it blames another computer.

The mouth of a perfectly contented man is filled with beer. -Egyptian proverb, c. 2200 BCE