Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long period of time.

It's not so much about form versus functionality. Rather, it's about doing both and doing them a lot and doing them well-and that's how we should be talking about architecture.

Public libraries are the last vestige of public free space.

It’s time for architecture to do things again, not just represent things.

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down on going to contracts classes.

Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.

We cannot improve ourselves or our country without improving our educational system and educating ourselves.

Nowadays some people have becomeintimate with thoughtsbut unfriendly with the heartThey have become a clueless eyethat does not see itself

I went back to my conversation with Siegfried that morning

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

It is a dangerous error, surely very widespread among Christians, to think that the heart can pray by itself.

If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving to that word its exact significance.

My writing is extremely important, so I write every day. I just enjoy it. I get a kick out of it.

Religion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the separation of church and state.

That was extraordinary. Unfortunately, extraordinarily bad.

My passion is acting, and has always been. It's what brought me to this point of being able to diversify and do other things, and I hope it's something I'll continue to have a passion for.