Every city in the world can be improved in less than three years.

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.

Prayer is good but unconditional love is better.

Everything that occurs to us in life is a resource, an experience that we can learn from and grow from.

You know what they say about air and water when it comes to fire, don’t you?” she

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.

To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.

There were ten dancers - four guys and six girls - including me, on the Beyonce tour. Sometimes we would go out with her, to events. She was really normal - just like everybody else!

The days are short, The sun a spark Hung thin between The dark and dark.

The urge to sing was so strong one day I performed in a club and it was very successful.