Ultimately it's the public nature of those projects that I most enjoy. Museums are more than just places to view art, they're also civic and social centers.

I think white is the most wonderful color of all, because within it one can find every color of the rainbow.

The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship.

Architecture which enters into a symbiosis with light does not merely create form in light, by day and at night, but allow light to become form.

An important work of architecture will create polemics.

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.

You can't escape the influence of architectural history.

The work needs to have a certain longevity. It lasts longer than we do.

It's important to understand differences in scale and environment.

If I had my druthers, I would do a lot more.

So I resort back to such ideology: we all have a calling. We all have an ultimate purpose. On that is laid before us by destiny or one that is positioned in the crosshairs of our long-term goals.

It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.

I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.

I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free.

The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect.

What I have learned about the sport of cycling is that you have to love it to do it because you're not going to retire off of it.

I felt like I was literally losing myself as being the joyful, spiritual, passionate, exciting woman that I naturally had been.

I am tired of the position of the dried-up critic and doubter. The believer is the true full man. (from a biography of James by Robert D. Richardson)