observation of realities has never, to put it mildly, been one of the strengths of economic development theory.

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.

Life is a memory, then it is nothing. All law is writ in a seed.

[S]ound policy condemns the practice of accumulating debts.

To be inspired - that's the secret.

If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.

I'm not as trusting as people think I am. Sure, I see the best in people, but that doesn't mean it's really there.

Moments are born and moments die. For new experiences to come to life, old ones need to wither away.

To follow implies not only the denying of one's own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty, but it also implies that your motive in following is reward.

Human beings can't bear silence.It would mean that they would bear themselves.

A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.