It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.

When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.

If you focus on design, you can call yourself a designer. If you focus on the implementation of your design, you can call yourself an architect.

When your focus is social change and not financial change why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.

When you build a beautiful building, people love it. And the most sustainable building in the world is the one that’s loved.

The fact that the president (Michelle Bachelet) was out giving minute-to-minute reports a few hours after the quake in the middle of the night gives you an indication of their disaster response.

Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact.

An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.

The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.

For me, I think the most exciting thing in architecture is the re-emergence of the locally-focused architect.

I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.

The best teachers are the ones who give you a hard time, they may not intend it, but you can intend to learn!!!

Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies.

General George Patton, General Douglas MacArthur are spinning in their grave at the stupidity of what we're doing in the Middle East.

I dont want to return to France, because Ive won everything there - league title, cup, best player, best young player

When the red star bleeds and the darkness gathers, Azor Ahai shall be born again amidst smoke and salt to wake dragons out of stone.

Let you look to your own improvement before you go to judge your husband anymore.

I love to sleep. I'd sleep all day if I could.

I am overly ambitious, because I realize it can be done.

There is more in this heaven and earth than what the scientist knows and is revealed in the x-ray.

Americans have two ardent passions; the love of liberty, and love of distinction.