I don't keep up with the Joneses, I am the Joneses..

Start small and with your own money..

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.

They will love me for that which destroys me..

The image is an image..

God hides things by putting them near us..

I often look for beauty in form and structure, and for ideas..

Since I went no grasse hath growne on my hele..

Things [only] exist once they are represented..

You can hold onto anything to make you carry on..

Take what you got and fly with it..

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself..

I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be..

When you're the ingénue no one is really interested in you for that..

I am not an African. I am an American..

My architecture is easy to understand. And enjoy. I hope it also is hard to forget..

Politics is a highly tribal business..

No one survives life..

Charge for something and make more than you spend..

If you push too much for somebody that everyone knows is your friend, and that you've worked with before, it can backfire..

Strength is for service, not status.