It's a different way of looking at the world. Your life isn't about rights. It's about responsibilities."--Mr Bill Berkowitz

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.

Use our memories as an asset not as a liability. Don't let it be our inner curse but share them as a rare gift.

Each temptation leaves us better or worse

The human being is not a fallen being in need of redemption but rather a forgetful being who must be reminded of God and his own nature.

Libraries are full of ghosts, books being the most haunted things of all.

There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.

I'm a pessimist by nature. I don't think things are ever going to work out, I'm not particularly ambitious.

We [with Andrew Ridgeley] didn't expect people to take it seriously. But naturally they did, and they thought we were a couple of wankers.

For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide.

Grief is a circular staircase.

The Indian Railways will become the growth engine of the nation's 'Vikas Yatra'.