Public libraries are the last vestige of public free space.

It's not so much about form versus functionality. Rather, it's about doing both and doing them a lot and doing them well-and that's how we should be talking about architecture.

It’s time for architecture to do things again, not just represent things.

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down on going to contracts classes.

Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long period of time.

Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.

What a person did when they were in pain said a lot about them.pg 459

Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all other things shall be added to you.

I was one of those kids who took apart their toys to see how they work, just to see what they were made up of.

Golf is supposed to be fun, but I don't think anything is fun if you're not doing it reasonably well.

Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.

Betrayal would be a different sort of sick.

When I am at my limit and hurting, I focus on the moment.

The reason why I buy into the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party is because there are over 2,000 verses of Scripture that deal with responding to the needs of the poor.

I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.