"This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world."

"The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning."

"After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared."

"The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe."

"Pretty isn't the only thing that matters - being smart and kind matters more, of course - but all daughters should hear from their moms that they look pretty once in a while."

"We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams."

"A woman's beauty is one of her great missions."

"It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness."