The fact that the president (Michelle Bachelet) was out giving minute-to-minute reports a few hours after the quake in the middle of the night gives you an indication of their disaster response.

When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.

If you focus on design, you can call yourself a designer. If you focus on the implementation of your design, you can call yourself an architect.

When your focus is social change and not financial change why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.

When you build a beautiful building, people love it. And the most sustainable building in the world is the one that’s loved.

Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact.

An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.

The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.

It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.

For me, I think the most exciting thing in architecture is the re-emergence of the locally-focused architect.

I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.

[The Devil's] laws are easy, and his gentle sway, Makes it exceeding pleasant to obey .

What I like doing is writing and recording and much more on the, I guess, the - on that creative level. It's fun interpreting songs and all that, but I wouldn't like it as a living.

Worst memory is when I was fighting for a living. You have to fight and train no matter how bad your injuries. This at times made the fun go away.

Always work with the present moment, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.

One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy.

Your hair is much too long, Ronald, for a moment I thought you were Ginevra.

Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale down your monstrosities. A scream is not a discovery.

I think the reason that very few people really fall in love with anyone is that they're not willing to pay the price.

It's funny - nowadays people that are famous get chased by paparazzi. They have this fame, but they don't have the money to hide from it.

You should help a man to take up a burden, but you should not help him put it back down.