The slum is the measure of civilization..

Kolkata is a great city, has great food and great people. We had some problems finding the kind of old buildings we were looking for, and even handli….

I'm not cutthroat. I'm Midwestern..

You love me?” … “Yes. More than life..

My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was alread….

You can only control what you can control..

The strength that comes from human collaboration is the central truth behind civilisation's success and the primary reason why cities existwe must fr….

Don't talk yourself into not being you..

Disasters like Oklahoma City and 9/11 were time-limited. The children who were affected psychologically could go to a place of normalcy..

I live to serve. except the part about living....

At first, when California started winning its water lawsuits and shutting off cities, the displaced people just followed the water-right to Californi….

We never are definitely right, we can only be sure we are wrong..

That's the thing about faith. It works..

You have to learn to interrupt because you aren't going to get called on..

It is much more rewarding to do more with less..

There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers..

Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj..

And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves..

I tend to stay away from the comics..

I got one that can throw but can't catch, and one that can catch but can't throw, and one who can hit but can't do either..

You can make history, or you will be vilified by it..