An advanced city is not a place where the poor move about in cars, rather it’s where even the rich use public transportation

An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport.

If we’re going to talk about transport, I would say that the great city is not the one that has highways, but one where a child on a tricycle or bicycle can go safely everywhere.

A bikeway is a symbol that shows that a citizen on a $30 bicycle is equally important as a citizen on a $30,000 car.

The essence of the conflict today, really, is cars versus people…We can have a city that is very friendly to cars, or a city that is very friendly to people. We cannot have both.

Children are a kind of indicator species. If we can build a successful city for children, we will have a successful city for all people.

In every detail a city should reflect that human beings are sacred and that they are equal.

Public space is for living, doing business, kissing, and playing. Its value can't be measured with economics or mathematics; it must be felt with the soul.

A protected bicycle lane in the city in a developing country is a powerful symbol, showing that a citizen on the $30 bicycle is as important as one in a $30,000 car

One symbol of lack of democracy is to have cars parked on the sidewalk.

God made us walking animals - pedestrians. As a fish needs to swim, a bird to fly, a deer to run, we need to walk, not in order to survive, but to be happy.

I think religion is a neurological disorder.

Patriarchy is women structuring lifelong decisions around men they haven't met.

Working hard denies oneself from instant gratification.

I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.

A big part of life is realizing what you're good at.

Poverty treads close upon the heels of great and unexpected wealth.

When you're true to your heart, you're infusing your self with meaning.

I am very blessed. The Valley is full of people, but they do not annoy me. I revolve in pathless places and in higher rocks than the world and his ribbony wife can reach.

I live in my head all day long and the world is a little dreamy.

We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry.