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.

We can’t have landfills forever and we can’t ask others to accept our trash.

Smash the Goals in your Life! You are the Unstoppable!

To some education is just a bore

The worst thing about being unhappy is not being strong enough to leave the situation.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!

I made a conscious decision when I was about 17 years old to strive towards mediocrity. I completely abandoned the idea of grandeur and importance, and I wanted to be mediocre.

This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.

Enjoy every minute of life. Never second-guess life.

Experimental science is the queen of knowledge.

I can't live with art: I'd spend too much time tweaking it.