Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore.

Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.

Time is just a blur for me. I don't know what - I don't even know where I am sometimes.

People ask me if I'm an artist or an architect. But I think they're the same.

Your best work is your expression of yourself.

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.

If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing.

You can look anywhere and find inspiration.

Not every person has the same kinds of talents, so you discover what yours are and work with them.

Take what comes your way. Do the best with it. Be responsible as you can and something good will happen.

You have to be optimistic. I still have doubts and conflicts, but the bottom line is, I believe in the future.

Complex is something that distort our perception of ourselves and the world

J: You will not believe what Mom is doing.M: Ballroom dancing lessons? Hot-air balloon classes?

The shape of your life depends upon whether you choose to be the sculptor or the clay.

For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.

It’s a strange grief…to die of nostalgia for something you never lived.

I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.

What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.

Die, my dear? Why that's the last thing I'll do!

Laughter is taken as a sign of strength, freedom, health, beauty, youth, and happiness.

Use lots of exclamation points. They love to be overused.