I tell my students, it's got to be warm, dry, and noble.

The hand expresses what the heart already knows.

The meaning resides in one's own experience, making the everyday the exceptional.

Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul, architects should lead in procuring social and environmental change.

Take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary.

It's not about your greatness as an architect, but your compassion

Theory and practice are not only interwoven with one’s culture but with the responsibility of shaping the environment, of breaking up social complacency, and challenging the power of the status quo.

The Goal is not to have a warm, dry house, but to have a warm, dry house with a spirit to it.

Listen to me, you’ve got this. Seriously, you’ve got this.

A sincere decision to make is to refuse to give up until the society experiences the defeat of every form of injustice and ungodliness.

We are unable to discount the hypotheses that the world began three years ago.

perception shapes priorities, priorities shape people

Nothing means anything but you still have to follow the rules.

If I'm lucky, in my wildest dreams I can make a picture every three years.

Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.

If some thug breaks into my home I can use my roundhouse kick, but I prefer he look down the barrel of my gun.

Il ne fallait jamais faire des expériences pour confirmer ses idées, mais simplement pour les contrôler. We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.

If there is a panacea, or cure-all to life, it is self love.