People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner." I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt it didn't matter.

Architecture is the art of making the invisible forces visible.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

如果你不愿意失败，你就没有准备好成功。