A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.

Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.

Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.

What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.

New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.

Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.

Every generation tailors history to its taste.

Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.

Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.

Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.

Islam deals not only with what man must and must not do, but also with what he needs to know. In other words, Islam is both a way of acting and doing things and a way of knowing.

If your options are closing-in around you and you feel panicked, scared and helpless, this is the time for action.

We must reprogram ourselves to understand that cooperation is a higher principle than competition.

How young can you die of old age?

If we don't change the way Washington operates we're going to bankrupt our children and grandchildren.

Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.

The people "have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge- I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers."

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

When we are adding to those around us, the world, ourselves, it feels good and right on levels we cannot even consciously connect with.

Momma kept a garden, which sounds romantic to people who have never held a hoe