The onlooker had better wipe the sympathy off his face. What he has seen is a revolution, not the home of little cogs and drones. What he has seen is the dormitory of the next managerial class.

It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished.

The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center.

What attracts people most, it would appear, is other people.

So-called 'undesirables' are not the problem. It is the measures taken to combat them that is the problem.

If you want to seed a place with activity, the first thing to do is to put out food.

People tend to sit where there are places to sit

People very rarely think in groups; they talk together, they exchange information, they adjudicate, they make compromises. But they do not think; they do not create.

It’s not right to put water before people and then keep them away from it.

Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.

People do not always argue because they misunderstand one another, they argue because they hold different goals.

if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

In terms of finding that first international recognition of my work, coming back to Cannes is such a milestone in my life because it began actually with 'Devdas'.

Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.

Gods dont kill people. People with Gods kill people.

I love capitalism. It rewards me for being brave - it awards me for being innovative and thinking out of the box.

When I hear anything derogatory towards the Raiders, I am definitely hurt.

Nevertheless, to the persecution and tyranny of his cruel ministry we will not tamely submit - appealing to Heaven for the justice of our cause, we determine to die or be free . . . .

History isn't a seesaw. If you have a really bad regime on one side, the actions on the other side don't automatically become good. It doesn't work that way.

The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods with painful sacrifices.