I was almost impeached for getting cars off sidewalks which car owning upper classes had illegally appropriated for parking.

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.

Fortune hides behind action.

My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.

You cannot get into business for the fashion of it.

You have to stop worrying about looking foolish, 'cause fear of being humiliated really limits you.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.

We were lining up and counting off nice and easy till you came stumbling through like a doped-up bull,' Minho responded.

Life can become once more a grand adventure if we will surrender it to god. He brings one adventure to an end, only to open another to us. With him we must be ready for anything.

Everybody has problems.

Of course killing people is 'wrong', but I think history shows that sometimes it serves the greater good.