Brazil will change when its cities change.

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.

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.

I'm not overweight I'm just nine inches too short.

Fair play is an English word. It is not a French word, and it has been copied all over the world. Unfortunately, it does not function any more here.

Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing.

The Middle East is America's 'champagne room'. No matter how much you spend, you will still never get what you want.

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books.

Consider God's love for you. Now double it. Now multiply that by 900 trillion. You're still not even close.

I had only two girlfriends. I didn't have many friends because I was staying at home and dreaming - drawing and dreaming.

Pain isn't always the enemy.