A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood

Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

God is in the details.

We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself... New materials are not necessarily superior. Each material is only what we make it.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be.

It is better to be good than to be original.

Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.

First you have to learn to do something, then you can go out and do it.

By strengthening our compassion, we give fuel to our courage and determination.

It's a weapon, I understand?""In the wrong hands, all tools are weapons. In the right hands, everything is a weapon, or nothing is.

While astronomers have been exploring outer Space, I have been exploring inner space.

Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.

It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

I think basically I just think I want everyone and don't really want anybody.

It's very hard not to be a scoundrel nowadays. Everywhere there are pressures that work towards our personal and collective debasement.

I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.

Internet users, that blue screen of death you were looking at this morning? That's the sky. If you're still confused, look it up on Wikipedia tomorrow.