Early unsuccessess shouldn't bother anybody because it happens to absolutely everybody.

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.

Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

I´ve blown it, the whole grisly charade.

When you get used to being let down, you will never be ashamed of failure.

Serving and attempting to inspire others is a responsibility, not a choice.

The truth is that intelligence, knowledge, and domain expertise are vastly overrated as the driving forces behind competitive advantage and sustainable success.

One day, I watched the sun setting forty-four times......You know...when one is so terribly sad, one loves sunsets.

This star won't go out. And it won't. we won't let it.

Iran launches monkey into space

The majority is always sane.

The worst thing about the fantasies of the mentally ill is that they're so damned consistent. They never let up. They never give you any rest.