There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

The future of architecture is culture.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does?

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

Life is enrich with much love

She felt as though she’d found a moment of forever. Like this was how they should’ve always been

Like a gardener I believe that what goes down must come up.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

No, I was never one of those positive people who believes he can have whatever he sets his sights on. I just kept working at it.

I actually have great hopes for the future.

Term limits mean that you don't trust the voters. 'Stop me before I vote again.'

I believe in the value of the book, which keeps something irreplaceable, and in the necessity of fighting to secure its respect.

I met Tiger Woods, and I looked in his eyes - and I saw Derek Jeter. They don't have to tell people they're good. They just prove it by the way they love the competition.

Overseas, kids grow up in a soccer culture. The German player sees the game eons above the American player the same age.