There may be some changes in building codes, but I don't see any stylistic departure that you'll be able to attribute to Sept. 11.

I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design.

Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence.

I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.

When I started designing in school, I discovered that I had a knack for it. I fell completely in love with architecture, and I remain in love with it.

I am a strong believer that as one moves toward the future, the strongest and clearest way to do it is if you have a good sense of your past. You cannot have a very tall tree without deep roots.

The World Trade Center was for me not only out of scale vertically, but it was also out of scale in plan. It occupied several blocks that were all massed together.

One of America's strengths has always been its openness to the new: both new ideas and new people.

When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to choose a career right after high school. There is no such thing as a liberal arts education.

My buildings are like my children, so I cannot have favorites.

No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived are those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book.

there is no game in her smile. There is warmth and kindness and something that looks like steel. You can tell me anything, her eyes say, because I will see the beauty in everything you say.

The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.

I started doing yoga.

Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain; No fear lest he should swerve or faint; "His life is Christ, his death is gain.

Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.

Let the ancient serve the present, let the foreign serve the national; by developing that which has been accomplished one creates something that is new.

How often one talks not to hear what the other person has got to say, but to hear what one has got to say oneself!

I'm the world 'Guinness Book of Records' holder of 1,749 hugs in one hour. My arms fell off.

Transparency may be the most disruptive and far-reaching innovation to come out of social media.