Critics build nothing.

I raise my stein to the builder who can remove ghettos without removing people as I hail the chef who can make omelets without breaking eggs.

When you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax.

Those who can, build. Those who can't, criticize.

If the ends don't justify the means, then what does?

Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.

[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.

Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine.

l have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake.

I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hothouses of learning do not always grow anything edible.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Lack of purpose, not lack of opportunity, is the problem. We are all blessed with different gifts. Everything depends on what you do with yours

In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few--the blind attract them, and they are the enemy.

The greatest advantage of all is that when people think you're a witch, you can eat an entire serving of squash all by yourself.

Reading haiku is as much an art as writing it. The reader needs to pause and listen to the silences, to feel the spaces between the words, and to journey into the depths of many multi-colored worlds.

If I ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

The harvested fields bathed in the autumn mist speak of God and his goodness far more vividly than any human lips.

We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

I have tried and I cannot find, either in scripture or in history, a strong-willed individual whom God used greatly until He allowed them to be hurt deeply.

Love’s secret is always lifting its head out from under the covers, “Here I am!”