Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.

You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.

Light has not just intensity, but also a vibration, which is capable of roughening a smooth material, of giving a three-dimensional quality to a flat surface.

If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It's much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules. When you have no rules, then you start to build your own rules.

When a man is not satisfied with a house where he lives, he becomes an architect

Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things.

You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony

A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.

Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you're doing. You have to be sure about what you're doing.

Knowing how to do things not just with the head, but with the hands as well: this might seem a programmatic and ideological goal. It is not. It is a way of safeguarding creative freedom.

A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesnt just draw things.

Marriages are for the grownup people. Fortunately or unfortunately, I am not yet the one!

Spiritual counselling is helping people find the deep root of stillness in themselves, which is also a connection to everything else.

The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better.

There are models who don't eat. That's worrisome - you need the right amount of gas to get going.

Power isn't about doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, Reiner. It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.

I was into jazz even when I was a kid. My parents would play Ella Fitzgerald, George Shearing, and Dixieland music. I loved The Monkees, The Beatles, The Eagles, and America.

For many, negative thinking is a habit which, over time, becomes an addiction.

We didn't have packed lunches at my school. I was a lunch monitor as well - I used to take everyone's chips!

I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going.

We must have government that spends less and does less.