I think that intelligent people to a great extent are captives of their time or place.

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.

Education is a cycle of reading, thinking and writing.

Love as if it is eternal. Love when you are alive and when you are not alive.

Revolve your world around the customer and more customers will revolve around you.

I think everybody should like everybody.

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.

There's nothing my housekeeper does that I can't do - and maybe better!

Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.

I came to L.A. to work and become a better actress, not to be a star.

Good systems tend to violate normal human tendencies.