Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.

I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.

You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.

There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?

Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless

You really have to have a goal. The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal. Know what it is you want to find out.

The beauty of the landscape - where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together - has never left me.

I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.

Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.

Yes, I'm a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted and tough.

I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.

Our whole life passes asking only one question to ourselves, “I did the same or more hard work than the one standing on top of my field. Why wasn’t I chosen for it?

Self-improvement and practice are the golden tools for earning the award of excellence.

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.

This murder of Hariri was deliberately planned and executed precisely to implicate Syria and to set in train the events which have unfolded.

Great deservers grow Intolerable presumers.

For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals.

I don't have everything I want but I have everything I need. That's contentment.

When you're a story teller, you work out everything. You work out who these people are, what's going to be happening. The environment in which they live.

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

You almost have to force yourself to stay in a vacuum to become different - if you really want to be different.