Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.

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.

Love is a rebellious bird that nobody can tame.

Apart from my children, spending time with refugees was the greatest gift... the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.

The deepest regret of yesterday can be made right by following the Savior today.

I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.

In the end, love wins. It does win. We know it wins. When a person dies, love isn’t turned off like a faucet. It is an amazingly resilient part of us.

I am more proud of Hillary Clinton's alt-right speech than any other moment on the campaign .

One in three women may suffer from abuse and violence in her lifetime. This is an appalling human rights violation, yet it remains one of the invisible and under-recognized pandemics of our time.

Congratulations to Sachin Tendulkar for becoming the first person ever to score 50 test hundreds, absolute superstar

I walked backstage, standing ovation. Everyone was backstage clapping.

The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.