Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact.

When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.

If you focus on design, you can call yourself a designer. If you focus on the implementation of your design, you can call yourself an architect.

When your focus is social change and not financial change why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.

When you build a beautiful building, people love it. And the most sustainable building in the world is the one that’s loved.

The fact that the president (Michelle Bachelet) was out giving minute-to-minute reports a few hours after the quake in the middle of the night gives you an indication of their disaster response.

An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.

The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.

It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.

For me, I think the most exciting thing in architecture is the re-emergence of the locally-focused architect.

I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

Some of the smartest men have a hard time comprehending the obvious.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

I know the Virginia players are smart because you need a 1500 SAT to get in. I have to drop bread crumbs to get our players to and from class

You had to be tough to be a female member of Congress.

Holy writing must strive (by all means) for perfection and true holiness, that a door may be opened to him in heaven.

You see what kills your body but you don't see what kills your soul.

Sexuality is half poison and half liberation. What’s the line? I don’t have a line.

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Never shame to hear what you have nobly done