For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.

In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.

I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It can accommodate a lot of life forms.

Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.

Sustainability can't be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a design challenge.

All the money I have, I got it legally.

You have plaintiffs attorneys, you have defense attorneys. So there is no unified bar that will protect a particular judge who has made a courageous decision that's unpopular.

The way I look at it, I'm a guy who acts to live.

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in all beings.

An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea

The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.

To retire is to begin to die.

We come to the nations pretending to escape persecution, we the most deadly persecutors in all the wretched annals of man.

One of my rules is, if Jesus or Taylor [Swift] calls, I take the call.

Encourage me, and I will not forget you.