I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

The future of architecture is culture.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does?

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

Adversity is the mother of prosperity

Make sure your intentions are not only for yourself, but also for the common good.

Any belief worth having must survive doubt

Community is where humility and glory touch.

I don't apologize for my diamonds, Rolls-Royce, Range Rover, or anything. Look, Queen Elizabeth has more diamonds than me. Why don't people attack her for it?

Sip the shame so you won't have to guzzle the regret.

If you can keep learning, you can still do your thing, and keep singing or whatever, and still do innovative things.

The French aren't perfect, but they have some parenting secrets that really do work.

There's a lot about New York that is unique, and there's always a culture and a subculture going on everywhere.

America is an unusually religious nation.