When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.

If you focus on design, you can call yourself a designer. If you focus on the implementation of your design, you can call yourself an architect.

When your focus is social change and not financial change why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.

When you build a beautiful building, people love it. And the most sustainable building in the world is the one that’s loved.

The fact that the president (Michelle Bachelet) was out giving minute-to-minute reports a few hours after the quake in the middle of the night gives you an indication of their disaster response.

Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact.

An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.

The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.

It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.

For me, I think the most exciting thing in architecture is the re-emergence of the locally-focused architect.

I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.

I never believed I will be the Breadwinner in my family, But I give Lord God Almighty Thanks!

Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.

Going out with other actors is never good; actresses are neurotic, and actors are horrendous egotists.

Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy tale most appeals to you.

I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books.

I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didnt exist there.

I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.

The Fed can change how things look, not how things are

The best kind of politics is when you help people become their own best selves.

I would always reserve a special place in my heart for Pittsburgh.