Take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary.

The hand expresses what the heart already knows.

The meaning resides in one's own experience, making the everyday the exceptional.

Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul, architects should lead in procuring social and environmental change.

It's not about your greatness as an architect, but your compassion

I tell my students, it's got to be warm, dry, and noble.

Theory and practice are not only interwoven with one’s culture but with the responsibility of shaping the environment, of breaking up social complacency, and challenging the power of the status quo.

The Goal is not to have a warm, dry house, but to have a warm, dry house with a spirit to it.

When you are saying "I", it is actually the billions of neurons in your brain collectively expressing their functional existence.

One should learn to be happy and content by himself, for everything else life is there to give a perfect lesson.

Miserere is about redemption, and the triumph of our best impulses over our worst. It's also about swords, monsters, chases, ghosts, magic, [and] court intrigues. It's also really, really good.

People have fought in vain about the names and lives of their saviors, and have named their religions after the name of their savior, instead of uniting with each other in the truth that is taught.

What would it take for you to forget all your troubles? Are you willing to simply forget all your troubles today? When you remove your attention from a problem, it gets bored and moves away!

all i want...is mac and cheese

Star Wars is mythology. Its like Greek mythology or Shakespeare. Its the story of good versus evil over a very long span of time. The storytelling is universal and timeless.

The only people I have seen who have been truly pushing for the truth are the family members.

To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.

The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.