I'm not inventing anything new, I'm just using existing material differently.

I believe that the material doesn’t need to be strong to be used to build a strong structure. The strength of the structure has nothing to do with the strength of the material.

An architect does not need to spend his whole career making monuments for rich people.

People are not killed by earthquakes alone, but by collapsed buildings.

Everyone used to want to be star architects. That's no longer the case.

I could have happily moved in and left my own cold, dark house behind, pretended as if this family were my own: loud and teasing and good-natured, instead of the fractured broken truth.

I'd like to run away from you, but if you didn't come and find me.... I would die.

What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.

Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.

Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.

Time is the mother and mugger of us all.

The reality is that the people that we represent are no longer going to be second-class citizens in their own country.

My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.

There's some are fou o' love divine; There's some are fou o' brandy.