Daniel Burnham

Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.

It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.

One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.

Under the previous regime of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, I was detained. So was my wife, Serkalem Fasil. She gave birth to our son in prison in 2005.

I do think my old fella wasn't much of a... I don't remember him ever being a 'dad' dad. He was too busy working. It was a hard life, man.