Credentialing, not education, has become the primary business of North American universities.

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.

Men go and come, but earth abides.

Psychoanalytic insight, Miller seems to suggest, is itself a pathological symptom.

What on earth have a man's name, degree, academic position, and of all things, opinions, to do with whether a thing is true?

Being alone at night is scary sometimes.

No nation, no society, no community can hold its head high and claim to be part of the civilized world if it condones the practice of discriminating against one half of humanity represented by women.

The mind is an enchanting thing.

I really do have rules for running and managing a business that have never been formalized before.

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright.

Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.