Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're interested in fully living life in the year to come.

I love marriage. I think it's a wonderful institution and it's the most important decision you make.

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.