How do you gag the voice in your head that says, 'You don't have to [do it] today. There's always tomorrow.'?

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.

Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.

Treat distractions as the enemy. The internet is brilliant but it is one very efficient way of wasting your time.

Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.

I'm a crier - let me know if you need some tips. I could cry every day, in a good way.

But you just gotta understand that that's the way it is and keep on steppin'.

By the power invested in me by the state of New York and the Universal Life Church, I now pronounce you husband and husband. You can kiss the groom.

Prose talks and poetry sings.

Lord! who hath praise enough?

In war, as in love, we must come into contact before we triumph.

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don’t.