An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.

When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.

If you focus on design, you can call yourself a designer. If you focus on the implementation of your design, you can call yourself an architect.

When your focus is social change and not financial change why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.

When you build a beautiful building, people love it. And the most sustainable building in the world is the one that’s loved.

The fact that the president (Michelle Bachelet) was out giving minute-to-minute reports a few hours after the quake in the middle of the night gives you an indication of their disaster response.

Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact.

The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.

It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.

For me, I think the most exciting thing in architecture is the re-emergence of the locally-focused architect.

I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.

I’ve created the most beautiful things out of my sadness.

So I think that I can say, as the President of Poland, we're proud that I am coming from Poland, which is different and what's more important, much better than before.

These are mad times, but there have been a lot of mad times in the world.

There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form.

If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.

If you love yourself meanly, childishly, timidly, even so shall you love your neighbor.

We have our differences since the beginning of America. It's a legitimate difference. What is the role of government, et cetera, federal, state, local?

I am the Raskolnikov of jerking off – the sticky evidence is everywhere!

Let nothing be changed and all be different.

The leader of a company needs to have a decision tree in his head - if this happens, we go this way, but if it winds up like that, then we go this other way.