The challenge of today's generation of architects is the environment.

My mother wanted to be president of the United States. She wanted to be the first woman president. She was born in 1924. Instead she had eight children.

I really believed all this stuff - that I had to change the world.

I always had an interest in space and the effect it had on you.

This generation I'm a member of, we're sort of infected by this idea that you had to make the world a better place.

My younger brother is an architect, my son and his wife are both architects, they work for me, and so I guess I've started a dynasty.

I decided I wanted to do something that was worthwhile and thought I would try architecture. There was not an architect in my family.

Architects need to restore and protect.

Life is your sacred journey. You ought to enjoy every moment.

Never sacrifice your children for the bigger house, fancier car or the 'better life'. The price you pay is hefty and non-refundable in the end.

u wil win if u do not quit

Maybe these whole woods are haunted with crushed girl ghosts and that's what I'm hearing. They're coming to check me out, make sure I'm cool. Which I'm not, so they'll be disappointed.

Be careful about financial offers that often come by email. Before you respond to such an offer, ask yourself: do I really need a new problem?

But there's a shift happening in humanity, a shift in consciousness, happening now because it has to happen now.

I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of.

You're the type who thinks of the glass as being half full, instead of half empty. "No," she said, "I'm just grateful for the glass.

Even through such simple acts as telling the truth, being kind, and encouraging others, we bring a smile to God's face.

The country is in an extraordinary ferment.