Urban transport is a political and not a technical issue. The technical aspects are very simple. The difficult decisions relate to who is going to benefit from the models adopted.

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.

I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

Wisdom is justified by all her children.Luke 7:35

Rahul had wondered how someone could love their beloved so much that their dedication to them became one of the wonders of the world.

Vampire Willow Rosenberg: "In my world, we have people in chains, and we can ride them like ponies.

The police need to come down to street level.

When it comes to beauty, I'm all about lashes right now.

Around the time I dropped out of college, I decided to start taking what I liked about short stories and apply it to writing songs - to make these things that would change and keep going.

A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them.

The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.

The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.