I do very little industrial design. I'm asked a lot, but I certainly don't see myself as an industrial designer.

The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.

A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.

You don't restore 'The Last Supper' by filling in the missing bits - you preserve. You accept the material that has somehow survived.

I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.

I may not be the most interesting architect, but I'm still out there and have maintained some position of integrity.

Most architects work in ­studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and ­historical ­research were irrelevant.

I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical?

Britain gets the architecture it deserves. We don’t value architecture, we don’t take it seriously, we don’t want to pay for it and the architect isn’t trusted.

If you look at a building by Mies van der Rohe, it might look very simple, but up close, the sheer quality of construction, materials and thought are inspirational.

Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap.

Be careful, darling. Your footsteps land heavy here. Your racket will wake the dragons.

I do think that VA, as the largest employer of nurses and the largest health system in the country, often does become a place where we can demonstrate advances in medical practice.

The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.

I have left the federal government and the German Bundestag; I have resigned from all my positions in the Social Democratic Party of Germany.

Society is built on marriage ... marriage and its consequences.

The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.

The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.

My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew