I am always surprised by how much little emphasis schools of architecture, and indeed, many architects, place on the process of the mating of a building.

Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don’t.

It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless.

If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.

Architecture is an expression of values.

Since Stonehenge, architects have always been at the cutting edge of technology. And you cant separate technology from the humanistic and spiritual content of a building.

The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.

You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.

I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.

Our object in life should be to accumulate a great number of grand questions to be asked and resolved in eternity.

I think you never stop learning.

Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.

A daisy blooming in a desert is worth more than a rose blossoming in a rainforest.

...as long as you are motivated by the approval of others, you cannot know with confidence whether the decisions you are making in your life are what's right for you... pg 102

There is no way to genuinely, powerfully, truly love yourself while crafting a mask of perfection.

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

You don't need vision to be a visionary.

The early '90s were an especially marvelous period for fashion, because it was the peak of glamour and there were no limits as to what you could do.

Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.

Existence must be asserted in the present if one does not want all life to be defined as an escape toward nothingness.

Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion, too.