Placemaking is community organizing. It's a campaign.

Everyone has the right to live in a great place. More importantly, everyone has the right to contribute to making the place where they already live great.

If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places.

When you focus on place you do everything differently.

We are eager to teach our children to go in the way they should go (Proverbs 22:6) but sometimes so much unwilling to go that way first.

How was I supposed to know ‘lucked out’ means ‘I got screwed over’ in Australian?

Put yourself in competition with yourself each day. Each morning look back upon your work of yesterday and then try to beat it.

What I thought as a young adult is you act like you have it together whether or not you do because that is what church people do. That is not what God has called us to do.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.

I think it's fair to have a vote on a resolution for censure.

People going in the wrong direction will get like that. Round pegs just don't fit in square holes.

Life for me ain't been no crystal stair

Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.