Cities are not problems. They are solutions.

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.

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.

Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin.

I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched.

Christians should seek the best information available about the earth over which we have been appointed stewards.

What makes women happy? Nothing, for more than ten minutes at a time, so stop worrying.

All our songs are about love, travel and death.

So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed.

I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know.

For I shall learn from flower and leaf, That color every drop they hold, To change the lifeless wine of grief To living gold.

Our customers call and e-mail us to say that's how it feels when a Zappos box arrives. And that's how we view this company.

The worship of God is, Honouring his gifts in other men each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best; those who envy or calumniate great men hate God, for there is no other God.