One by one, I could find a house that somebody had restored properly, and then another one, and now it's like a virus. Everybody in Palm Springs wants to do it.

A house is more than just a shelter; that it is a way of improving your way of life.

At one point in my practice, of the 10 largest home builders in the United States, seven of the 10 were my clients.

I have had built, from my designs, over 40,000 living units, and that's more than any other architect that I know of.

Peace can't be forced, only discovered from within

It's okay to fail; it's not okay to quit.

The impresario's job is to pick the right people who can pick the right people. He picks the people who can pick artists and relate to them. People who know what the market craves.

Meaning to send a thank-you note but then not doing it is exactly the same as never thinking to send one - that person is still receiving zero thank you notes.

I just don't think the moon is going to be an adequate substitute for the fact that we haven't addressed ourselves to clearing up the slums.

I believed we needed someone who would be able to build a team, lead and unite. I hoped that person would be Boris Johnson.

Conventional wisdom is not to put all of your eggs in one basket. 80/20 wisdom is to choose a basket carefully, load all your eggs into it, and then watch it like a hawk.

To win this league, the toughest league in the country, and to be outright champs is a tribute to their effort. It's a great lesson in life for our guys. It shows anything is possible.

Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness.

Philadelphia, wonderful town, spent a week there one night