If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind

I think architecture becomes interesting when it has a double character, that is, when it is as simple as possible but, at the same time as complex as possible

We borrow from nature the space upon which we build.

If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.

My objective is to design a space that nobody else can come up with while using the material that anyone can use.

In all my works, light is an important controlling factor.

It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.

You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.

As long as you have an objective in your mind you are young.

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

I think you should live every moment like tomorrow is your last day, but you should also plan for the future like you will be living another hundred years.

Figuring out what you want in life is hard, having the courage to fulfill it is even harder!

Prayer releases your problems to God.

Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.

You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.

I didn't have a calling to be a therapist. I really went to Pacifica for a very specific kind of life experience, to really kind of find my path in a deeper way.

All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow.

The American dream has now morphed into an expectation. And if it isn't provided, or if it doesn't happen, then people feel cheated.

I knew your father before you did, and I don't think he'd be too proud of what you're doing right now.