The meaning resides in one's own experience, making the everyday the exceptional.

The hand expresses what the heart already knows.

Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul, architects should lead in procuring social and environmental change.

Take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary.

It's not about your greatness as an architect, but your compassion

I tell my students, it's got to be warm, dry, and noble.

Theory and practice are not only interwoven with one’s culture but with the responsibility of shaping the environment, of breaking up social complacency, and challenging the power of the status quo.

The Goal is not to have a warm, dry house, but to have a warm, dry house with a spirit to it.

The great act is love.

I was able to make many different kinds of movies. They enriched me on many different levels.

My theory about comedians is that their greatest fear is other people laughing at them. So comedy is an attempt to control and manipulate the thing they find most frightening.

You allow people to represent themselves, and they'll either look smart or foolish on their own; you don't have to do much for them.

It's a good thing [James] Dean died when he did. If he'd lived, he'd never have been able to live up to the publicity.

Everything in modern civilization is based on this concept of time which is not really valid.

My donors have always tended to do much better than expected.

If you can do no good, at least do no harm.

I watch so much television, it's embarrassing.

Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms. For each of them, love would be the revelation of the self through the gift of the self and the enrichment of the universe.