I really believed all this stuff - that I had to change the world.

My mother wanted to be president of the United States. She wanted to be the first woman president. She was born in 1924. Instead she had eight children.

I always had an interest in space and the effect it had on you.

This generation I'm a member of, we're sort of infected by this idea that you had to make the world a better place.

The challenge of today's generation of architects is the environment.

My younger brother is an architect, my son and his wife are both architects, they work for me, and so I guess I've started a dynasty.

I decided I wanted to do something that was worthwhile and thought I would try architecture. There was not an architect in my family.

Architects need to restore and protect.

Theres nothing to fear but fears themselves, such as monsters, rejection, food poisoning, redundancy, monsters, and oxford commas.

God, I hate the Germans.

A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.

Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.

I'm a big Brad Pitt fan. He's really talented. I think a lot of men are intimidated by him, saying he's just a pretty boy or whatever, but he is a bad man. I think he can act.

Choose the human race over the nuclear race. Bury the weapons and don't burn the people.

It was a promise she knew I might not be able to keep. But I made it anyway because I was going to find a way to make it true.

People keep asking me if I am having more fun, being blonde, but I always have fun! Whether I'm blonde, redhead, or brunette! I always have fun.

Alesi is in second place, and Hill is in second place.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.