Be innovative. Don't listen to the tried and tested wisdom. Take a risk!

I think to be creative you have to resist taking the easy path.

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious

Architecture is not just for the moment, it is not just for the next fashion magazine.

When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily.

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.

What is a habit? It’s just a shackle for ourselves.

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

And, yes, I love the process of building.

Young people have the advantage because they have their whole lives open to be astonished.

I've only got forever and forever is fine

Skills vary with the man. We must... strive by that which is born in us.

A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.

He died a long painful death. However, you'll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.

My next door neighbor's two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current administration.

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.

Terrorism is you winning hearts and minds of people.

It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.

I grew up very modest, and I never forget that.

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.