Empires want [cities] only to trade with the empire, which doesn't help them at all. It's just a way of exploiting them.

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.

Life is a question asked by God about the way he exists.

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

We should celebrate immigrants and everything they do for our country.

I don't think it is worth trying to look 10 years younger through surgery.

I always thought I was a singer, but I really am not.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well

Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem.

But try as I might, I never got to eat any of her pastries, and do you know, she never even offered me one.

The forests have taught man liberty.

Remember, channel your inner winner.