Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don’t.

It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless.

If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.

Architecture is an expression of values.

Since Stonehenge, architects have always been at the cutting edge of technology. And you cant separate technology from the humanistic and spiritual content of a building.

The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.

You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.

I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.

Our object in life should be to accumulate a great number of grand questions to be asked and resolved in eternity.

I am always surprised by how much little emphasis schools of architecture, and indeed, many architects, place on the process of the mating of a building.

I think you never stop learning.

Ah, youth!It was a beautiful night...The moon was out of orbit.The stars were awry.But everything else was exactlyas it should have been.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

If you feel guilty about not "playing nice," then you could easily alleviate your guilt by playing nice.

At the end of the day, you got to learn from people that been through what you been through; they help you learn from your mistakes.

And just being there is ninety-nine percent of what matters when your world falls apart

Who owns your body? You or the state?

Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.

At the end of the day, I remain a country boy inside.

I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.