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We can finish a house, but never a home. Once you fall in love with a house, you find continual pleasures in fixing it up and making innovations that satisfy your creature's comforts.

There are certain people who seem doomed to buy certain houses. The house expects them. It waits for them.

Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family.

For many of us, owning a home signaled a passage into adulthood that coincided with the start of a career and family.

I think it is just a function of the fact that I moved around so much as a child that I learnt early on to make every place my home.

I try to create homes, not houses.

Designing a house is like doing a movie: Once you're done, you want to say, 'I hope you all enjoy it.'

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.

I think I have the best house in the world. I thank God to have it. I thank God that I finished it. And I hope that I will live enough to take profit of it.