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.

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

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.

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.

Our religion was the religion of a Book. Man must be educated on Earth for Heaven. John Quincy Adams

New York - The city where the people from Oshkosh look at the people from Dubuque in the next theater seats and say "These New Yorkers don't dress any better than we do.

When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening - there wasn't no 24-hour news.

A broker is a man who runs your fortune into a shoestring.

I am so constituted that I had rather read bad stuff than nothing.

I shall never eat duck again. I cannot believe I used to like duck. The duck betrayed me.

Well, I like songs that have like a little bit of quirkiness to them.

Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.

There is never such a thing as learning too much. We can always delve deeper, and in fact we should!

The three essentials of Hinduism are belief in God, in the Vedas as revelation, in the doctrine of Karma and transmigration.