If you focus on design, you can call yourself a designer. If you focus on the implementation of your design, you can call yourself an architect.

When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.

When your focus is social change and not financial change why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.

When you build a beautiful building, people love it. And the most sustainable building in the world is the one that’s loved.

The fact that the president (Michelle Bachelet) was out giving minute-to-minute reports a few hours after the quake in the middle of the night gives you an indication of their disaster response.

Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact.

An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.

The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.

It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.

For me, I think the most exciting thing in architecture is the re-emergence of the locally-focused architect.

I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.

Love and ego can never exist together, just as the Sun and shadow cannot.

Don’t chase people. Be an example. Attract them. Work hard and be yourself. The people who belong in your life will come find you and stay. Just do your thing.

It is a sacred gladness for us to celebrate the holy birth of Jesus Christ.

The totally alive, totally conscious, and totally aware Universe takes care of itself completely. It is totally self- reliant and totally self- sufficient. It is perfect.

True unconditional love starts from you to you. Stop waiting on others to give it to you.

One of the joys of being a grandparent is getting to see the world again through the eyes of a child.

What would I reclaim America as? I do want it to be a diverse country.

Til that the brighte sonne loste his hewe; For th'orisonte hath reft the sonne his lyght; This is as muche to seye as it was nyght!

I don't have the time. It would take me too long to go through all of the math.

Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it.