Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

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.

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

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.

And, yes, I love the process of building.

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

Only the past is real.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns.

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library where he can get it if he wants it.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

I did it for political, moral reasons, thinking that I was making this great sacrifice, but it was absolutely necessary; I was not going to contribute to the violence in the world anymore.

Justice has always evoked ideas of Equality, of proportion of compensation. In short, Justice is another name of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.

I learn from my mistakes. It’s a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there’s no gain.

At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.

You can't start a fire in the pouring rain.