Everyone used to want to be star architects. That's no longer the case.

I believe that the material doesn’t need to be strong to be used to build a strong structure. The strength of the structure has nothing to do with the strength of the material.

An architect does not need to spend his whole career making monuments for rich people.

I'm not inventing anything new, I'm just using existing material differently.

People are not killed by earthquakes alone, but by collapsed buildings.

Who knew that the devil had a factory where he made millions of fossils, which his minions distributed throughout the earth, in order to confuse my tiny brain?

The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.

They call you Medusa. One wrong look and your brain turns to stone.

You don't become happy by pursuing happiness. You become happy by living a life that means something.

Women trapped in violent relationships need to know that there's no shame in talking out and walking out on their abusive partners.

Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element.

Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?

Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Foreign relations is an open book-- generally a checkbook.

The devil knew what he did when he made men politic; he crossed himself by it.