We think about project's public nature and how that can be enhanced, how the spaces we create can enliven the experience of being there.

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.

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 love her and that's the beginning and end of everything.

The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.

So many women keep their anger inside and let it build until they explode and then people blow them off again.

We're all simultaneously separated and connected by our devices, staring into our little screens, and also hungry for experience and community.

If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I'm a little more respectful of ants.

Honestly, I get energized by the crowds. They feed me emotionally.

All SEALS in my mind are equally elite. It doesn't matter if you're SEAL Team Two, One, Six, 10, it doesn't matter. All SEALS are equally elite.

I am a huge, huge Ronnie Milsap fan. I have been for a long time.

Success will come when the societal attitude changes and not a single woman in America asks herself the question 'What did I do?'.

The leader of a company needs to have a decision tree in his head - if this happens, we go this way, but if it winds up like that, then we go this other way.