When I started designing in school, I discovered that I had a knack for it. I fell completely in love with architecture, and I remain in love with it.

I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design.

Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence.

I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.

I am a strong believer that as one moves toward the future, the strongest and clearest way to do it is if you have a good sense of your past. You cannot have a very tall tree without deep roots.

The World Trade Center was for me not only out of scale vertically, but it was also out of scale in plan. It occupied several blocks that were all massed together.

One of America's strengths has always been its openness to the new: both new ideas and new people.

When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to choose a career right after high school. There is no such thing as a liberal arts education.

My buildings are like my children, so I cannot have favorites.

There may be some changes in building codes, but I don't see any stylistic departure that you'll be able to attribute to Sept. 11.

The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.

Pray for change in your heart and not your circumstance, and you will see what will happen.

The Indians were inside their bodies, he decided, in a way that the British were not. His own flesh impeded his spirit.

I cannot believe there is caste system in society I cannot believe people are judged on the basis of their prosperity.

The capacity of Iraq's security forces has improved, and Iraq's leaders have made strides toward political accommodation

You have been gifted with mental faculties to improve any circumstance around you.

My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard.

There's this idea that when you turn 40, you automatically go to adult contemporary heaven, but I want to try and challenge that.

There will be no insurance industry left in three years.

Habits are changed by practicing new behaviors, and this is true for mental habits as well.