Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.

I think to be creative you have to resist taking the easy path.

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious

Architecture is not just for the moment, it is not just for the next fashion magazine.

Be innovative. Don't listen to the tried and tested wisdom. Take a risk!

When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily.

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.

What is a habit? It’s just a shackle for ourselves.

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

And, yes, I love the process of building.

Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another, "I want to know why!

We must stop destroying human capacity. Now.Too many of today’s leaders are holding back the future because it comes wrapped in risks.

We desire justice, and justice has never been obtained in haste and strong feeling.

Always distance yourself from gossip because it's the worst form of self-disruption.

Whatever you can become will ultimately be destroyed. Only what you already are can't be taken away.

Each individual in a society is a nexus where innumerable relationships of this character intersect.

I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.

No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!

Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw?

I think most Americans are against illegal surveillance of their emails and telephone calls by the government.