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

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.

Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.

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.

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 man manages his intellect and steadies his mind, He discovers the all-pervading Self.

Life is short and there will always be dirty dishes, so let's dance.

Anathematization of the world is not an adequate response to the world.

I never wanted to be in a band because I love music too much to mess it up.

There is a crisis of religious authority world wide, and there are many reasons. One is colonialism.

The basic principle that we must follow in directing the armies of the Republic is this: that they must feed themselves on war at the expense of the enemy territory.

I'm a self-made woman. I've never compromised myself.

If you want to sell the most records, duet with me. If you need someone to come in and bless your record sales, I'm your man.

When we truly discover how to love our neighbor as our self, Capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.

Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.