We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect.

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious

And, yes, I love the process of building.

Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.

I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains.

And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream.

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.