But look what we have built ... This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

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.

Love is something worth suffering for...

No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.

I'm glad to be here [in Israel] again.

None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.

The suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools.

I think that when people look at me, and they look at my height and my voice and my coloring, they automatically think, "Tough."

A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task.

To gain control over the quality of experience, one needs to learn how to build enjoyment into what happens day in, day out.

Any universe that could have preceded consciousness only existed in a probability state.

If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus.