If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.

A car is like a mother-in-law - if you let it, it will rule your life.

If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems.

I have realized after all these years that a city that has a good quality of life attracts jobs. People don't want to invest in places if there is no quality of life.

I always run into these Ph.D.s. They write and write and write about sustainable development. Then these guys ask me, 'But, how do you do it?' They are scared to death to do anything.

There is no place in a city that can't be better. There is no toad that can't be a princess, no frog that can't become a prince.