Soul is just that inner spirit. I use that inner spirit for whatever it is I do.
The whole can be greater than the sum of it's parts, that we all have something to put in the pie to make it better, and that the collaborative interaction works.
Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.
An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.
Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.
We should celebrate variety rather than conformity and allow people to express themselves. That we don't is more of our denial.
I love working. I don't know what the word vacation means.
Plains deceive you; they cause you to think that life is easy! Mountains never deceive you; they teach you the realties! Go to the mountains!
The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude. . . men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.
I remember watching Mel Gibson on some show once, and he was being asked about his belief in the afterlife. Gibson said: 'Well, I can't believe this is all there is'. And I thought: 'Wait a minute. You're Mel Gibson. You have millions of dollars. You're a great-looking chap with every conceivable blessing that could be bestowed upon a man. And that's not good enough ?'
There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up.