You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school.

People don't know I've got a deep social conscience. I'm a child of the Depression, born in 1933. My parents were very liberal in their social views.

I don't want to be in the film business. I'm not even sure it's a business.

No one ever made a million bucks by being cautious or timid or reasonable.

One, Andrew Carnegie said, ‘He who dies with wealth dies in shame.’ And someone once said, ‘He who gives while he lives also knows where it goes.’

While I am proud of a number of accomplishments, there are real costs to being unreasonable. Long hours. Too little time with family. A near incapacity for, as they say, stopping and smelling the roses.

I'm strong-willed. Architects are strong-willed. You get the best results with a strong client and a strong architect working together.