The problem with architecture is it goes with the territory, because it's an applied art and because you're messing about with people and their environment.

Any artist will tell you that when they get negative criticism of their work, it's personally hurtful to them.

It's really important that we not replicate what came before us, but we do something of our own, that's reflective of our own time, of contemporary society.

When we're dealing with historic buildings, we don't replicate, but we try to be subordinate and be deferential to them.

I'm a passionate person, and I care deeply about the work I do. It's very, very important to me that it's well received.

If we are to believe or accept that buildings are cultural markers, if architects work in a vacuum with their own preconceptions about society, then we won't be creating appropriate cultural markers.

Public commentary absolutely influences my work.

Life is as sad as a glass of grenadine.' ... It’s almost that. It is sad. But, at the same time, how a glass of grenadine sparkles!

Soft power is quiet persistence.

Dare to imagine. Dare to be. Books are the seeds. Dreams are the soil. The fruit of the harvest, a world reborn.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

Coming before God in quietness & waiting upon Him in silence often can accomplish more than days of feverish activity.

A truce to idle phrases!

For all we know Of what the blessed do above Is, that they sing, and that they love. While I listen to thy Voice.

What is the son but an extension of the father?

If you’re alive, you can’t be bored in San Francisco. If you’re not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life.