There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close.

Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future.

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

Technology cannot be an end in itself but must aim at solving long term social and ecological problems.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

As architects we have a responsibility to society

I don't understand why everyone has to wear black, grey and white.

As an artist, what do you think the biggest mistake you can make is? My vote for the biggest mistake is being afraid of making mistakes.

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

Loyalty makes you family

She might have been there for you in the aftermath, but I was there when everything came crashing down.

A person looked at me and said "I can't believe you eat ice cream when it's cold out" "I replied oh that's nothing I drink water also when it rains

Places you go in life - it opens your eyes up and you kind of understand who you are.

Faith may have removed mountains way off somewhere, a long time ago, but it won't remove a wart at home this week.

If you care about the 2012 election and value the voices of regular Americans who lost hope in their hope and change candidate, this is one documentary you won't want to miss.

Last words are for those fools who believe they have not yet said enough.

You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.

My wife is so stupendously ugly it is easier to take her with me than to kiss her goodbye.

Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.