Behavior shapes beliefs.

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.

Contentment is the foundation of true Happiness. The Happiness that comes from fulfilling desires can never be permanent.

There are no undecideds. There are only people that decided to be undecided.

Resiliency is not gender-, age-, or intellectually specific...

Every so often my life will feel like a story. It doesn't have to be a big thing; in fact, most often, it's just the opposite.

I hate to be obvious," added the Scarecrow, "but you'd have saved yourself a heap of trouble if you weren't too cheap to invest in a leash, Dorothy.

Well, you know, first of all, let me just say that I am a proud member of the NRA and have been, and I'm a lifetime member and will always be.

Even when there is no law, there is conscience.

We live ruins amid ruins.

A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.

The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.