Make it nice where you are, and put the density on top.

First life, then spaces, then buildings - the other way around never works.

A good city is like a good party - people stay longer than really necessary, because they are enjoying themselves.

Cultures and climates differ all over the world, but people are the same. They’ll gather in public if you give them a good place to do it.

Only architecture that considers human scale and interaction is successful architecture.

A good city is like a good party. People don't want to leave early.

Something happens because something happens because something happens

An endless number of green buildings doesn't make a sustainable city.

If you make more roads, you will have more traffic.

The path to your dream is more about following a direction than arriving at a destination.

Some people speak from experience while others from experience don't speak.

We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head down a very bad, dark trail to where a lot of people aren't going to make it.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

I think basically most men are misogynistic.

Trust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will.

Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me.

An authentic updating of sacred music can take place only in the lineage of the great tradition of the past, of Gregorian chant and of sacred polyphony.

Peace is the product of justice and love.

Love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.