Every city has to deal with the problem of cars and public transport.

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.

Choose to not worry at all, freeing your creative mind and spirit to solve your problems.

[H]istory is seen in a rear-view mirror while the future is the dark, foggy road ahead, filled with unknown trouble.

Success is waking up every day and doing what you want to do

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.

We cannot win this World Cup, because we are not at that level yet. For us, we have to play the game of our lives seven times to win the tournament.

My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.

At the moment I really love listening to the Dave Matthews Band.

Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and thatto compress it further can only make it more obscure?

A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my head always.