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 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.

Take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary.

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.

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

Sometimes, crazy is exactly what we need.

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods.

Patrick Ewing used to be much better in every aspect of the game.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem and thine own soul shall be refreshed.

I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

It's a struggle for me to watch things I've been in because I'm just distracted and self-critical.

What people don’t understand is that it wasn’t about Dean or Eddie, it was about whether or not I was in the right place.

You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of Snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a Snob.