A lot of people assume that the expensive ideas are the most effective ones, but that is simply not true.

If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems.

If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.

The secret to the city is integration. Every area of the city should combine work, leisure and culture. Separate these functions and parts of the city die.

A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.

Cities are not problems. They are solutions.

Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.

The car is the cigarette of the future.

After working in cities for nearly 40 years, I am telling you that every city can improve its quality of life in less than three years, no matter the scale or the financial conditions.

Creativity starts when you cut a zero from your budget.

We can’t have landfills forever and we can’t ask others to accept our trash.

The only way to find happiness is to create it inside your mind.

While politicians may be forgiven for failing to predict the future - who can, alas? - it is amazing that they defiantly ignore the past.

Look, but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, but don't swallow.

When I was so fatigued that I couldn't move, the excitement of going to the barn and getting my foot in the stirrup would make me crawl out of bed.

I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart

Skill sheets, workbooks, basal reader, flash cards are not enough. To convey meaning you need someone sharing the meaning and flavor of real stories with the student.

The more people see that they are being understood, they become more motivated to understand your point of view.

I don't do this to be healthy, I do this to get big muscles.

I’ve never seen the need to choose one type of music at the exclusion of another. That would feel kind of sad and arbitrary.

Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city