You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his Personal Legend. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love.

We don't need more icons, we need more good buildings.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

The poor are not irrational; they are just as rational as anyone else, but they operate under very different constraints.

"Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography."

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.