I built a series of supporters that had my back. I never abused that trust. You can't cry wolf. You have to solve most problems yourself.

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.

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.

The truth of the story lies in the details.

When humans were young, they were pushed around in strollers. When they were old, they were pushed around in wheelchairs. In between, they were just pushed around.

She was finally owned up- it took death as a price for her being accepted.

A true man never frets about his place in the world but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature and swings there as easily as a star.

Maybe I will go to Paris. Who knows? But I’ll sure as hell never Go back to Texas again

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

A good library at home is a giant empire inside the house.

I tell you this, and I tell you plain: What you have done, you will do again; You will bite your tongue, careful or not, Upon the already-bitten spot.

The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.

I don't think any President ever enjoyed himself more than I did. Moreover, I don't think any ex-President ever enjoyed himself more.