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

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.

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.

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

I wondered then if there could ever be trust in a relationship based from the outset upon deceiving other people.

When we are taught that safety lies always with sameness, then difference, of any kind, will appear as a threat

I can certainly sympathize with writers who don't want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.

Cleveland's a great place when you're a kid. You hardly ever get sunburned, without the sun shining.

We're going to have strong borders. People are going to come into the country, but they're going to come legally. We're going to keep our jobs and not let them go to Mexico.

My first car was a Chevy Cavalier. My dad somehow convinced me that it was a hot sports car because it was red.

I don't go to parties in general.

I’ll parade with those who are alone like me. They exist. They are very few, but they exist. I’ll find them.

While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.

Instead of telling the world What it is supposed to do, Why don't you immediately do it yourself? In this way, I assure you, Your happiness will be surprisingly multiplied.