Don't look at the superficial success, at the short-term success. Look at the deep spiritual questions that architecture has to answer. Who do you build for? Where? What should you build?

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.

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

And, yes, I love the process of building.

A writer fills the paper with the pictures of perception, experience, and feeling of real and imaginative lives.

The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves...

A true generous heart can never revolve majorly with monetary skills nor business acumen nor cunning mind.

Our nation grew strong in an era when moral standards were emphasized, and it will grow weak when we condone that which we once condemned.

I think best on two wheels

A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.

I have a deep appreciation for the wisdom of this guy , George Washington.

The noise from good toast should reverberate in the head like the thunder of July.

[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.

First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal, yet how trifling the use we make of it.