I have the best job in the world. I wake up every morning energized at the thought of running Rio de Janeiro, the most exciting city on the planet.

Favelas [slums] are not always a problem. Favelas can sometimes really be a solution.

[At] the end of the day, when we talk about cities, we talk about a gathering of people. And we cannot see that as a problem.

An extra pressure, a silent rebuke, an unseen praising, a firm correction: all these passed between us as through telegraph wires.

Now is the time when your action is practice.

Although under particular circumstances, the violence method - any method - can be justified, nevertheless once you commit violence, then counterviolence will be returned.

Deep and elegant explanations relate to natural or social phenomena and the observer often has no place in them.

Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they’re waiting for someone to say, "You’re good, you’re pretty, I give you permission."

When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress.

See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based... I want to cut his nuts off. Barack, he's talking down to black people.

One truth is that suffering raises profound questions with the universe. The other truth is that grace, gift and generosity also raise profound questions.

If moment by moment you can keep your mind clear then nothing will confuse you.

Sometimes the lines in a song are lines you wish you could text-message somebody in real life.