Highways dont belong in cities. Period. Europe didnt do it. America did. And our cities have paid the price.

Cities are for people. A city is where people come to work and raise their families and to spend their money and to walk in the evening. It is not a traffic corridor.

The highway program devalues the tax base of a city.

It occurred to him that strength was quite different from toughness and that being vulnerable wasn't quite the same as being weak.

Listen, said Beverly. Let me tell you something. There is no Very Friendly Animal Center. That cat is long gone.

It is easy to tell confidence from pride. Confidence lifts, encourages, helps, and is full of gratitude. Pride demeans, mocks, destroys, and is bitter and resentful.

We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.

I'll shoot my age if I have to live to be 105.

I'm alienated from this world because its weird and I don't want to be a part of it. I want to be part of the people that are more imaginative and crazy.

I've fought hard and now I'm weary to the bone.

Aunts are discreet, a little shy / By instinct. They forbear to pry.

What is more miserable than discontent?