The best places to live, work, and visit are those places that are willing to uphold their standards in the face of pressure to allow lowest common denominator development... Successful communities understand that when they say no to development that is contrary to the long-term health of their community, they will almost always get better development in its place.

There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.

The image of a community is fundamentally important to its economic well-being. If all places look alike, there's no reason to go anywhere.

Agriculture is the new golf

You can grow without destroying the things that you love.

Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before.

There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on.