Any relationship between a building and its users is one of violence, for any use means the intrusion of a human body into a given space, the intrusion of one order into another.

Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge.

Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.

To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder.

My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.

The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.

I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret

The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.

I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret.

I'm a Baroque person. More than Baroque, I'm a Rococo person. I don't draw straight lines.

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.

Our heavenly Father is great in mercy, He feeds and clothes us everyday, We will worship and humbly learn from himFor our Lord clothes the grass of the field.

A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.

Democracy...is a society in which the unbeliever feels undisturbed and at home. If there were only a half dozen unbelievers in America, their well-being would be a test of our democracy.

You are a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.

The Electoral College protects state sovereignty. It actually is one of the most brilliantly conceived electoral mechanisms ever.

Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body?

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

If you are willing to bear serenely the trial of being displeasing to yourself, then you will be for Jesus a pleasant place of shelter.