Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships.

Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.

The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge.

Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.

I think of what the experience is of going into the building, of spending time in it, and try to get a sense of what the building would be like to work in as well.

A noble space, unlike any other of our time, for it is both strong and delicate. It seems to call at once for a Boeing 747 and for a string quartet.

A suburban mall turned vertical.

For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing.

We identify New York with the great bridges and tunnels and roadways and subway system and so forth.

Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century.

New York grew up before the automobile. And even though it's full of cars, its shape and form didn't get created around the automobile.

The problem isn't so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.

I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London.

Bollywood stars are versatile; they not only act, but each one has the dance skills of John Travolta in 'Saturday Night Fever.'

Ask yourself: What did I eat for breakfast today? What did I eat for dinner last night? You see how fast reality fades away?

My every thought has the power either to wound or heal. I will use my thoughts wisely and respect their power.

Learning to be extremely disciplined has been the key for me. I work really hard during work hours and family really hard during family hours. Family does always come first though, in any situation.

I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression.

There's nothing more rewarding or important than to be involved in God's work of redemption.

The arrow of Marxist-Leninism must be used to hit the target of the Chinese Revolution.

If today you have nothing to be happy about, thank God for the potential of tomorrow.