To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge.

At the root of everything I do is a fascination with ideas – what ideas are for, what jobs they do.

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses

The British government - any government - is potentially the worst [architectural] client in the world.

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.

I don't feel I'm trying to make art. I'm trying to make interesting things. People can relate to that.

Continue to diligently work and God’s principles will work in your life as it worked in Ruth’s life

Don't try moving mountains God ordained you to climb.

Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil.

Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives.

I like to challenge myself.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.

If something isn't working, don't try harder or do more. Do something DIFFERENT.

The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Crying was like pissing everything out on the ground.