Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

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.

A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.

It is perfectly acceptable to have a physical problem in our culture, but people tend to shy away from anything that has to do with the emotions.

Don't let others define your dreams.

The criteria or the paradigm for us is not the West, not the Western paradigm, because the West has its own culture, we have our own culture, they have their own reality, we have our own reality.

Money-crimes have an abstract quality. History is laden with the victims of gold, but their remains are odourless.

I always believe when your political opponents are committing suicide, there's no reason to murder them.

My mother left me when I was 2 years old which is devestating to a child.

Suffering has no strength to wound a weary body.

Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.

I always tell what I see.