Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.

Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

I like to use 'I Can't Believe it's Not Butter' on my toast in the morning, because sometimes when I eat breakfast, I like to be incredulous. How was breakfast? Unbelievable.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Architecture is invention.

I don't believe in morality in architecture.

My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.

I'm thankful for every moment.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Dick Clark will be truly missed. We will carry on his legacy every New Year's Eve.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.