I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.

What is important is using one's talent, intellect and energy in order to gain an appreciation and affection for people and place.

The practice of architecture not only requires participation in the profession but it also requires civic engagement.

The initial sketch is always an emotion, not a concept.

Architects are by nature and pursuit, leaders and teachers.

The first point of justice ... consists in piety; nothing certainly being so great a debt upon us as to render to the Creator and Preserver those acknowledgments which are due to Him for our being and the hourly protection He affords us.

If you can't give me your word of honour, will you give me your promise?