For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.

You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?

I had a dual role: designer and advocate.

I'm a little more measured. That sense of urgency I thought accompanied things - it can take a little longer. You have to take the long view.

I think my desire to imagine a future for this site came out of trying to come to terms with the emotions that day aroused.

I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here.

I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an 'ism' kind of bothers me.

I believe that people are fundamentally are decent. And, yes, you will have people that sometimes will misbehave.

PERFORMING TRIBUTE 9/11 shows the heroism of people who have chosen to respond to devastation and hatred with quiet determination and a belief that they can and will make the world a better place.

New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

One passion leads to another. It's passion that makes the wheels of life turn, passion for work, passion for pleasure, passion for passion.

Even if our home burns down we can rebuild it. But the things that we got for nothing, we can never replace.

Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it.

It's not the years honey, it's the mileage.

At the Throne of Glory it is not the nobly-born that are beloved, but the nobly-risen.

the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.

A smile can work wonders. Put it to work for you.

I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy but I don't - life is a blessing.

The Word of God is too sacred a thing, and preaching too solemn a work, to be toyed and played with.