I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

The future of architecture is culture.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does?

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Take 5" is the practice if spending 5 minutes a day giving focused attention to your hopes for your talent.

The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out.

Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat.

While "cute" is hopelessly anchored to the Teletubby ideal, "ugly" is free to take infinite varieties. In this way, ugly is beautiful.

My mom says that my dad coerced me into choosing the cello. He says that's not entirely true. I don't remember; I was three.

Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening - she makes one.

Sorry...I got distracted listening to you and hot glued myself to my unicorn

It does not help that some politicians and journalists assume the public is interested only in those aspects of science that promise immediate practical applications to technology or medicine.

The surest way to lose sight of who you are is to constantly compare yourself to others.