The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship.

I think white is the most wonderful color of all, because within it one can find every color of the rainbow.

Architecture which enters into a symbiosis with light does not merely create form in light, by day and at night, but allow light to become form.

An important work of architecture will create polemics.

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.

You can't escape the influence of architectural history.

The work needs to have a certain longevity. It lasts longer than we do.

It's important to understand differences in scale and environment.

Ultimately it's the public nature of those projects that I most enjoy. Museums are more than just places to view art, they're also civic and social centers.

If I had my druthers, I would do a lot more.

Perhaps this was the wisdom with which a child in her position survived: by minimizing her wounds—staying as small as possible, as nearly transparent as possible.

Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.

I am pleased that God made my skin black - but I wish He had made it thicker.

To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy.

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

You'll be sorry if you marry a man you don't love.

The way I look is part of it. It sounds affected but I do see myself as a piece of living art.

Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.

It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

You can go outside and spit and have the same effect as doubling carbon dioxide.