"People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect."

"The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture."

"I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would bring the nation to the apex - where it has stood before - and lead the world."

"If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create."

"A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again."

"The time at our disposal each day is elastic the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it."

"The river of time washes away kings and empires, leaving only virtue intact — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars."