Higher ceilings allow the use indirect lighting, which is much healthier and reduces glare.

I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.

A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.

The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.

Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one.

When I think of some of my earlier work, it really seems a fortunate coincidence that I succeeded.

A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It's not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it.

You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner.

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.

Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.

Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.

What lies ahead is far greater than what we have left behind.

Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.

One minute can decide the outcome of the battle, one hour - the outcome of the campaign, and one day - the fate of the country.

I never planned on being a live performer. My whole forte was about being in the studio, producing, playing the piano on recording sessions. I was all about the studio.

I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos.

The issue is not what you're doing with your body; it's what you're doing with your mind.

The responsibility of the great states is to serve, and not to dominate, the world.

The chicken had his wish, and was magically transformed into a fox. Then he found that he could not digest grain.

A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity.

What made me love thee? let that persuade thee, there's something extraordinary in thee