If I had my druthers, I would do a lot more.

I think white is the most wonderful color of all, because within it one can find every color of the rainbow.

The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship.

Architecture which enters into a symbiosis with light does not merely create form in light, by day and at night, but allow light to become form.

An important work of architecture will create polemics.

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.

You can't escape the influence of architectural history.

The work needs to have a certain longevity. It lasts longer than we do.

It's important to understand differences in scale and environment.

Ultimately it's the public nature of those projects that I most enjoy. Museums are more than just places to view art, they're also civic and social centers.

Almighty Father, do not destroy mankind. Save us from every calamity.

We got places to go, people to meet, and things to blow up!That needs to be cross-stiched on a pillow

It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles whom we knew.

The crowd sometimes plays a tremendous role to give you wings and carry you to victory.

What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.

I liked the piano. I always liked playing. I just hated homework.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

I had a great childhood, a very close-knit family. We were all overweight, and we had good times eating together, I imagine.

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.