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

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

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.

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.

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.

You might plan how you sleep but you can't plan how you wake up. He who plans how to sleep is a Planner, he who plans how to wake up is a Dreamer.

So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.

No matter how many vitamins you take, how much Pilates, you'll lose your keys, your hair and your memory.

Tim Tebow cannot dance, I know that. Tebow can do a lot of things, but he can not dance.

What does it feel like to get shot?" "I don't recommend it," said Nellie in a controlled voice. "Chocolate is definitely better.

I am accomplishing so much on a personal level now, breaking down boundaries and growing in to the person I want to be. Right now I am the change I want to see it the world - that makes me happy!

What you do makes you better at what you think. What you think makes you more effective at what you do.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

I saw more stupid people in graduate school and three decades in academia than I ever did who ran 100 acres without going broke.

In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy.