The best relationships in our lives are the best not because they have been the happiest ones, they are that way because they have stayed strong through the most tormentful of storms.

If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere ease of life, then we shall indeed reach a condition worse than that of the ancient civilizations in the years of their decay.

Theodore Roosevelt

But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jane Jacobs

There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change, until there is more time, until we are less tired, until we get a promotion, until we settle down -- until, until, until. It always seems as if there is some major event that must occur in our lives before we begin living.

George Sheehan

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education.

Nicholas Negroponte

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Edward Hoagland

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

William Shakespeare

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

John Locke

The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.

Marc Chagall

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

Thomas Jefferson

The world has teeth and it can bite you with them any time it wants.

Stephen King

I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written.

George Orwell

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; Hold fast; Hold out. Patience is genius.

GeorgesLouis Leclerc Buffon