"Form follows beauty."

"Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings."

"For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity."

"It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms."

"I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children."

"Washington is broken. Bailing out Wall Street with no strings attached while leaving middle class Arkansas taxpayers with the bill. Protecting insurance company profits instead of patients and lowering health costs."

"Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice."

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."