Sometimes miracles occur only when you jump in.

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.

Millennias old lies can be gradually accepted as truth.This is the real ultimate power of historical engineering.

Things work out better when you're straight up.

It won't be as easy, but lots of things that are worth doing aren't easy. It just takes commitment, discipline, and, most important, faith that it's all going to work out.

Sport is one area where no participant is worried about another's race religion or wealth: and where the only concern is 'Have you come to play?'

In any closet, you can find it, if it is too small, or out of style, or there is just one of it where there should be two

Dry your tears, have no fears.

When you want to hear a philosopher, do not say, 'You say nothing to me'; only show yourself worthy or fit to hear, and then you will see how you will move the speaker.

Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?

People want to hear clean sounds; they don't want to hear coughing in the background, pages turning.

I really love to make movies.