The hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most.
Each material is only what we make it.
No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood
Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. He will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time. An architect of ability should be able to tell a client what he wants. Most of the time a client never knows what he wants.
We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself. . . New materials are not necessarily superior. Each material is only what we make it.
I want to see people do more than simply raise their hand when they come to Christ. Where are the totally changed lives?
[Pope Francis] is a humble man. He lives the faith out in his own personal life. . . . He's here to be a shepherd; he isn't here to be a scold. I think that's a good thing for the church and for the world, frankly.
I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake and pierce me, will weaken me, and make me tremble and soften and melt.
Because startups often accidentally build something nobody wants, it doesn’t matter much if they do it on time and on budget. The goal of a startup is to figure out the right thing to build - the thing customers want and will pay for - as quickly as possible.