There are bound to be differences in any artistic collaboration with landscape elements, or theater, of lighting elements.

You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?

I had a dual role: designer and advocate.

I'm a little more measured. That sense of urgency I thought accompanied things - it can take a little longer. You have to take the long view.

I think my desire to imagine a future for this site came out of trying to come to terms with the emotions that day aroused.

I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here.

I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an 'ism' kind of bothers me.

I believe that people are fundamentally are decent. And, yes, you will have people that sometimes will misbehave.

For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.

PERFORMING TRIBUTE 9/11 shows the heroism of people who have chosen to respond to devastation and hatred with quiet determination and a belief that they can and will make the world a better place.

Til death do us part....The words wrap around my mind like soft, silk binds, and I cherish the imagery. Eternity can only be with this man – there will never be another who knows me so well.

Let thy true religion be to act right.

Properly understood, Imagination and Prayer are directly proportional —the more they pray beyond their bounds, they expand their vision beyond their resources, their experiences, their expectations.

according to the psychologist irving Janis, is that our sense of belonging (which makes us feel safe) blinds us to dangers and encourages greater risk-taking.

I had reclusive tendencies for a reason, I couldn’t be trusted to live in the world and make decisions on my own.

It's important for the writers of the presidential daily brief to feel comfortable that the documents will never be politicized and/or unnecessarily exposed for public purview.

Biblically speaking, to hear and not to do is not to hear at all.

Run hard, be strong, think big!

We are all sinners. We are called to a conversion of heart