After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.

Borne out of this, starting around the 17th Century was the Baroque era. It is my view that it is one of the architectural peak periods in western civilisation.

Good design doesn't date.

The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

Japans humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors.

At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth.

The government only makes restrictive rules, they dont show you what to do so you know, OK, heres where we need this many apartments, with open space, playgrounds, kindergartens.

The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal.

As much as the needs of fact, the needs of the spirit and the senses, must be satisfied. Architecture is as much a part of the realm of art as it is of technology; the fusion of thinking and feeling.

I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that.

The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders.

I always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a hard time hanging them up at home.

Cooking and baking are pleasures and I want everyone to be able to experience and share them.

I feel like you constantly have to prove why you deserve to continue to exist.

There is real love just as there are real ghosts; every person speaks of it, few persons have seen it.

I am never better than when I am on the full stretch for God.

I am perpetually bringing or losing babies, both very dreadful operations to me, and which tear mind and body both in pieces very cruelly.

As children of the Lord we should strive every day to rise to a higher level of personal righteousness in all of our actions.

Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.

Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.