Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence.

I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design.

I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.

When I started designing in school, I discovered that I had a knack for it. I fell completely in love with architecture, and I remain in love with it.

I am a strong believer that as one moves toward the future, the strongest and clearest way to do it is if you have a good sense of your past. You cannot have a very tall tree without deep roots.

The World Trade Center was for me not only out of scale vertically, but it was also out of scale in plan. It occupied several blocks that were all massed together.

One of America's strengths has always been its openness to the new: both new ideas and new people.

When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to choose a career right after high school. There is no such thing as a liberal arts education.

My buildings are like my children, so I cannot have favorites.

There may be some changes in building codes, but I don't see any stylistic departure that you'll be able to attribute to Sept. 11.

When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face.

Awareness takes over from thinking. Instead of being in charge of your life, thinking becomes the servant of awareness.

Time is too conceptual. Not that it stops us from filling it in. So much so, we can't even tell whether our experiences belong to time or to the world of physical things.

Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page.

God loveth adverbs; and cares not how good, but how well.

You can't hear God speak to someone else, you can hear him only when you are being addressed.

Husbands are never happy. My husband asked me for more space, so I locked him out of the house.

Donald Trump is great television, just has it. Trump looks good on TV.

Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.

I know people are fickle.