Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.

Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.

Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.

Supply and demand regulate architectural form.

The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.

Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art.

The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.

When I was a child, I believed that those stars were knights in silver armor protecting the universe against darkness.

The word love has always tasted like the scent of fresh ink and soft paper to me. Like a newly written poem.

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

I prefer the earlier birth control techniques, which ranged from the delicious (using honey as a spermicide) to the aerobic (jumping backward seven times after coitus).

There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.

If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.

The good thing about directing yourself is that you get over yourself.

What a man misses mostly in heaven is company.

If I am incompetent, I am useless, the people of India will see that.

This is the kind of work I've aspired to my whole career.