Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

The future of architecture is culture.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does?

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.

It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.

Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be.

Everyone is dispensable but some are more dispensable than others.

There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

I read each evening, at night and whenever possible during the day when I am traveling. I have always read.

A business man's conversation should be regulated by fewer and simpler rules than any other function of the human animal. They are: Have something to say. Say it. Stop talking.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.

We're always in that head space about the audience and less about us at that moment.

As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance.

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.