The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle is actually the right to destroy the city.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.

Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.

Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.

Stange how nearsighted being invisible can make you - said Dumbledore

There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

How is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world I never knew?

I prefer the band situation. I prefer the relationship. Music is meant to be that way. It's meant to be interdependent.

Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind.

You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.

When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.

My father-he pretty much taught me everything I know. He still pushes me to be the best I can.

I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.