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.

Lowly, unpurposeful and random as they may appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life may grow.

You know what Marshall needs to do. He needs to stop being sad. When I get sad, I stop being sad, and be awesome instead. True story.

Err, sorry Father Abbot. I tripped y'see. Trod on my Abbot, Father Habit. Oh dear, I mean....

Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.

Money buys access; access buys influence.

Of course, if you assume a big enough conspiracy, you can explain anything, including the cosmos itself.

The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs.

I believe it to be one of the most important discipleship resources we have produced at Ligonier.

If I, taking care of everyone's interests, also take care of my own, you can't talk about a conflict of interest.

Don't start drinking before the fifth song.

Art is long, and the talk about it is even longer.