As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely.

Human intelligence is a limited resource. It cannot solve problems caused by ignoring fundamentals of existence.

A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.

Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them a tangible reality. They determine the way in which we use or squander our energy, time, and land resources.

Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.

A city can only be reconstructed in the form of urban quarters. A large or a small city can only be reorganized as a large or a small number of urban quarters; as a federation of autonomous quarters. Each quarter must have its own center, periphery and limit. Each quarter must be a city within a city.

Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.