The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.

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.

The more you concentration on God, the longer your conversation with him lasts and the holier his consacration will be on you. Let your communication with him be controlled by your committment.

My mouth is not talking, my fingers are!

Recycle your pain, allow your pain to reach you to greatness.

Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.

The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.

You can divide my life into two.

Since all signs indicate that we shouldn't participate in this election, participating in the election has no meaning.

One of the most crucial but hardest things to do as part of turning your life around is to get rid of all the negative people around you and replace them with people who encourage you instead.

Being with a kid always takes you to being a kid somehow, and they really are showing me a childhood I might not have had in some way.

I've learned that if you wait long enough, you might get a second chance at something you gave up on. And sometimes you'll be the one to give the second chance to someone else.