I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood

Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

God is in the details.

We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself... New materials are not necessarily superior. Each material is only what we make it.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be.

It is better to be good than to be original.

Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.

First you have to learn to do something, then you can go out and do it.

Both the thoughts and the senses were pretty things, the ultimate meaning was hidden behind both of them... from both the secret voices of the innermost truth had to be attentively perceived.

The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame

Life has a sense of humour

We often see a temper of the times connection, and it's just like a fairy tale. It's not true.

A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward.

I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.

In my work I fight for, I hope, showing women in a true way. They've got brains.

We need to have an economy that works for everybody, not just people on the top.

We don't want a president who fails at domestic and foreign policy.

Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all my ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.