Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul, architects should lead in procuring social and environmental change.

The hand expresses what the heart already knows.

The meaning resides in one's own experience, making the everyday the exceptional.

Take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary.

It's not about your greatness as an architect, but your compassion

I tell my students, it's got to be warm, dry, and noble.

Theory and practice are not only interwoven with one’s culture but with the responsibility of shaping the environment, of breaking up social complacency, and challenging the power of the status quo.

The Goal is not to have a warm, dry house, but to have a warm, dry house with a spirit to it.

Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves.

Yelling and screaming won't really get what I want from my kids.

What we fear we often rage against.

Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.

Thousands of legal and illegal immigrants staged what they called a Day Without Immigrants. Or, as it's known in Utah, Monday.

Soon evening worked its way into the sky, and the city hunched itself down.

When you treat your time as though you are a machine; a doing machine; you are committing violence against the sacredness of life itself.

But classical music is not entertainment, and I feel viciously strong about that. Classical music is forever. Entertainment is something that is here today, and may be gone tomorrow.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.