Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.

When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material.

In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.

My buildings should have an emotional core –a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.

I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.

I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world.

If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the light, the rain, the birds, the feel.

Architecture is not about form

Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.

Presence is like a gap in the flow of history, where all of [a] sudden it is not past and not future.

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.

You're still the same Ramsey I danced with, " he said softly.

Remember sixteen - when all the world was new and your life stretched out before you like fresh snow waiting for your footprints?

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

This kid deserves anything good that happens to him. He's such a good guy. He's just the nicest human being you want to meet.

I had a good run here, fifteen years. That's a great run. I'm not saying that I'm done in center field - if I could play there forever, I would. But I know that's not reality, so I'm happy.

The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

Australia is breathtakingly beautiful, and I can't wait to visit again.

You can run on a football field but you can't hide out there.

One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve.

Variant: I was driven to drink by a woman. I am forever grateful, yet I never had the good manners to thank her.