Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.

For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.

To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject - architecture - that I had already faced in building some small houses.

Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand.

Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin or a skull, but you don't know what's inside.

A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art.

The literature of America should reflect the children of America.

That's the value of the artist... Even when they aren't aware, they're dreaming our dreams for us.

Dreams are achieved by sweat, blood, tears and an iron will!

By faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

I'm an Englishman. What more can I say?

He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.

People have been born in refugee camps and they are getting tired of that.

It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather.

[I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist] but that only goes to underline the point I'm trying to make about the need to broaden our account of the tradition!

I follow four dictates: face it, accept it, deal with it, then let it go.