The architect who really designs for a human being has to know a great deal more than just the Five Canons of Vitruvius.

I am an eyewitness to the ways in which people relate to themselves and to each other, and my work is a way of scooping and ladling that experience.

Architects must have a razor-sharp sense of individuality.

Optimists move through life with a happy exterior. What happens on the inside shows up on the outside.

A man in drink can be like a ravening wolf.

Success is taken by the man, who has made himself ready for its arrival.

I was in fact anxious about whether I would be any good at being a father. And then I met so many people who had been good parents under difficult circumstances, and I felt inspired by them.

The artist is the antenna of the race.

They must be doing something right up there in Canada.

Men in particular need to speak more about their personal reasons for wanting diversity in the workplace.

I myself, at one time, wanted to be like the explorers of the Himalayas that I used to read about; people intoxicated on the myth of history.

I think skating helped me find myself.

Every lion has a time in their life when a thorn has got to them at one point.