I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.

Every art and every inquiry and similarly every action and choice is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being the former has made us men.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it so I signed up for acting instead.

As a designer the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

We can't forget what happened on May 4th 1970 when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.

So I think you have to marry for the right reasons and marry the right person.