I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.

There was a wish to get something exceptional, ... I also wanted to deliver something technically unique.

The most touching thing that anyone can say to me is that I have done something beautiful for the community.

I am always searching for more light and space.

You start a project as a young person and then at the end you are another person. You are ready to go for your pension.

The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of creativity to each building.

It's very atmospheric. It's not a building that is a severe statement in the skyline. We need the height; otherwise, the building almost disappears because it is so slender.

As a building is resistant to forces acting upon it, a person must be equally tenacious in life.

The architect needs to learn to see, and to open his eyes because there is always a lesson to learn from the streets.

The way is not always easy, but in order to bring a work through to completion, you will need a strong character, a broad foundation of knowledge and an enormous force of persuasion.

Technology is a vocabulary and a language in which you can say many things.

Books open a realm to a world beyond our own, all one has to do is take a leap of faith, open one, and step through the gate, passed the veil of myth on into the unknown.

Men who fish at shallow waters can never have enough fish to feed their family talk less of a nation or a generation

To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get.

Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

Al Gore completely lied about climate change in an effort to make a lot of money.

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

Donald Trump said he still wants to look more closely at Obama's birth certificate to make sure that it's real. Incidentally, President Obama said the same exact thing about Donald Trump's hair.

There's no place like New York to engage so many wonderful people who care about black people.

Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.