Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall. The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall.

I sense Light as the giver of all presences, and material as spent Light. What is made by Light casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light.

We are born of light. The seasons are felt through light. We only know the world as it is evoked by light.

The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

Even a room which must be dark needs at least a crack of light to know how dark it is.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

A city is the place of availabilities. It is the place where a small boy, as he walks through it, may see something that will tell him what he wants to do his whole life.

Even a brick wants to be something

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

I Use The Square To Begin My Solutions Because The Square Is A Non-choice, Really. In The Course Of Development, I Search For The Forces That Would Disprove The Square.

If we had spent our time on our children education rather than praying

It’s as predictable as the tide and the moon. It ebbs and flows. Death comes and it goes.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

Male female slave or free; peaceful or disorderly; maybe you and he will not agree; but you need him to show you new ways to see.

Before I did 'How I Met Your Mother,' I was not considered a comedic actress.

Rome endured as long as there were Romans. America will endure as long as we remain American in spirit and in thought.

If I have sometimes seemed to make fun of Woman, I assure you it has only been for the purpose of egging her on.

To not think of dying, is to not think of living.

Wisdom happens through meditation, and bliss also happens through meditation. Both the flowers bloom on the same branch.

There's room for role models who make mistakes.