"Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting."

“A city like Bombay, like New York, that is a recent creation on the planet and does not have a substantial indigenous population, is full of restless people. Those who have come here have not been at ease somewhere else. And unlike others who may have been equally uncomfortable wherever they came from, these people got up and moved. As I have discovered, having once moved, it is difficult to stop moving.”

Source : Suketu Mehta (2006). “Maximum city: Bombay lost and found”, p.34, Penguin Books India

“Part of the pleasure of any kind of walking for me is the very idea of going somewhere-by foot.”

“Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.”

Source : Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.6, Vintage

“We document, explain, justify, construct, organize: these are good things, but we do not succeed in coming to the whole ... But we may as well calm down: construction is not absolute. Our virtue is this: by cultivating the exact we have laid the foundations for a science of art, including the unknown X.”

“What is important, and I think celebrities should do, is show your children when they are young is that wealth is not important. I took my children when they where young to Brazil, to the shanty towns with children begging. Ever since that day, I have had no problems with my children, if I buy them anything they are grateful.”

“People of integrity expect to be believed. They also know time will prove them right and are willing to wait.”

“Promise me that if I ever get Alzheimer’s or dementia, and I don’t remember anyone that you’ll visit me every day and read to me like Noah read to Allie.”

“I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.”