The city is not the problem; the city is the solution.

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.

An opportunity is a miracle waiting to happen.

The future is called 'perhaps', which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

When I found myself in the U.S., and the war was at full swing in Bosnia, I read for survival - it was a means of thought resuscitation.

Technology is not neutral. We're inside of what we make, and it's inside of us. We're living in a world of connections — and it matters which ones get made and unmade.

It's always nice to have people love the things that you do.

The preservation of freedom, is not the task of soldiers alone. The whole nation has to be strong.

Don't you know how sweet and wonderful life can be?

The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers.

This life will never be without storms. Stop fearing the storm. Build your inner shelter.