My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company.

When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material.

In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.

My buildings should have an emotional core –a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.

I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.

I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world.

If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the light, the rain, the birds, the feel.

Architecture is not about form

Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.

Presence is like a gap in the flow of history, where all of [a] sudden it is not past and not future.

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.

I knew that by this time tomorrow, I was going to be eternally grateful for falling down the stairs and knocking myself unconscious. Smartest dumbest thing I'd ever done.

If you sit quiet long enough, you find out what people really think.

Without Christ there is no hope.

Lord that she might be safe. She and my children.

In statistics, what disappears behind rows of numbers is death.

Yeah, I've made some mistakes. Every guy makes mistakes.

I could be anything I wanted because I was an American. And I hope that that's really what's propelled me into public service.

Christ has no body now on earth but yours.

At the end of the day, love and compassion will win.

I am an addictive personality.