A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art.

For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.

To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject - architecture - that I had already faced in building some small houses.

Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand.

Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.

Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin or a skull, but you don't know what's inside.

And when my days run out, I will have lived just a blink of time and the rest will be eternal joy.

Going to the gym at this odd hour didn't 'work out' for me.

Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that.

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

Drucker said: 'If you weren't already in this business, would you enter it today? And if not, what are you going to do about it?' ... Simple, right? But incredibly powerful.

I had a massive amount of self-belief when I did stand-up.

Besides, who ever asked you what you wanted in this world, girl? The answer to that question, reader, as you well know, was absolutely no one.

I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.

There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.

I make tiny wooden people with bits of hair. Puppets and things like that.