For me, architecture is a social act.

Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is influenced by the nature of spaces.

I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people.

Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings.

Africa is an extraordinary opportunity at the moment

A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.

What are we doing? Are we talking? Are we having fun? Are we building, destroying, remembering, or forgetting love?

Keep the guests company, and mind your asses! Stay out of the hall before my chamber!

Use what talents you have the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best.

Any sympathy won for Aileen Wuornos based on a lie is not sympathy at all. The question is, can we have sympathy for the circumstances of someone's life? That's what I was interested in.

Any thought which tends to inspire, to comfort, and to give peace to the mind is good.

Apparently, as a kid, I used to eat spiders. Maybe there's some Freudian significance behind that.

Kill Rock Stars allowed me to put out a real genuine rock 'n' roll record.

True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans.

We do not have time to play at "oppositions" at "conferences." We will keep our political opponents... whether open or disguised as "nonparty," in prison.