The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms. This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.

A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.

We try to avoid the single-building syndrome. You have to look at the big picture. If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn’t work. You have to do it all together.

Canada has for many years been a beacon to the rest of the world for its commitment to pluralism and for its support for the multicultural richness and diversity of its peoples.

There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.

There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one's own greed.

Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God's creation.