It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.

You can grow without destroying the things that you love.

If you have a boat and a happy marriage, you don't need another thing.

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

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.

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.