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.

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.

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.

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

‎By reacting from fear instead of responding from love, you inject poison directly into the veins of your relationship.

But all remains unchanged.

If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day.

Solving problems is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano: you can learn it only by imitation and practice.

There are a lot better musicians than me out there that just haven't had the luck to fall into everything like I have.

I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.

We go hard or we go home we gon' do this all night long! #werk

My friends actually found a fansite of mine, and they all registered to be in it.

Faith is power to believe and power to see.

People want to work with a person, not for a company.