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.

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.

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

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.

When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year.I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety.

Let your past propel you forward, not hold you back.

Many Christians are like servants with “shoes.

Cool parents, I thought, are the ones who know nothing. It made me feel a little sad for mine, but I didn't say any of this.

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

God doesn't need anything nevertheless He wants worshipers.

I'm always making fun of myself and my friends.

One of the successes of the cause of the friends of peace is the ratification of the Franco-Soviet Pact of Mutual Assistance.

Don't make assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want.

My criticisms are extremely mild in comparison to the tone of some of the questions fired in my direction.