When I was with the serpent-handlers in Tennessee, it was the most bizarre method of worship I could think of. Yet when you sit with these people, you can kind of see how it makes sense.

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.

Pastors uses peoples ignorance to spread their deception.

Do not make your mind a dumping ground for other people's garbage.

We may get knocked down on the outside, but the key to living in victory is to learn how to get up on the inside.

I think our Canadian fan base is large because it took us a while to get over here anyway, in the first place.

I think the other thing that shaped me a little bit is that I really didn't have any success in music until my early to mid-30s.

She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.

I am not John Lennon; I never will be!

Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks.

Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

The beauty of a piece of music is not in its technique but in the Soul of its creator; nor is it in the sound vibrations of the piece but in the silence of the Light from which the sound springs.