I think cars encapsulate the history of innovation and style - it's the other side of the coin of the car being public enemy No.1.

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 love you not because you are perfect, but because I find you inside myself.

It was the Communists, it was the Mexicans, it was the government. And the only people who acknowledged their guilt weren't guilty at all.

A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.

I'm so popular it's scary sometimes. I suppose I'm just everybody's type.

There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.

One year I was given a birthday present I'll never forget - a cooking lesson from Jamie Oliver.

If thou need money, get it in an honest way by keeping books, if thou wilt, but not by writing books.

Our lives are just spectacles. We are like dolls, in a sense, to be observed and played with - often with cruel and deceitful intentions - in an unreal world.

I always thought I was good. That's why it was so frustrating when other people didn't agree.