“Words are like eyeglasses: they blur everything that they do not make clear.”
“Never cut what you can untie.”
“The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.”
“Children have more need of models than of critics.”
“A metropolitan economy, if it is working well, is constantly transforming many poor people into middle-class people.”
“Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination.”
“The trust of a city street is formed over time from many, many little public sidewalk contacts.”
“There must be eyes upon the street, eyes belonging to the natural proprietors of the street.”
“Lowly, unpurposeful and random as they may appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life may grow.”
“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.”
“New ideas must use old buildings.”
“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.”
“Don't mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.”
“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
“Experience is never limited, and it is never complete.”
“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance.”
“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
“Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.”
“We work in the dark—we do what we can—we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task.”
“Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.”