If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

Limitation makes the creative mind inventive.

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.

The mind is like an umbrella. Its most useful when open.

The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation.

Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.

A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.

I talk to God but the sky is empty.

Just because he was not a monster did not mean he wouldn’t be treated as one.

Creative leadership can be described as “adaptability meets agility, ” and “innovation meets principles.

The act of accumulating knowledge about the transcendent concepts and the ability to actually experience the inner essence that these concepts signify are two very different things.

Writing is a team sport.

I'm an Asian guy growing up in London so I see myself as British, but India is part of my culture.

Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy.

I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera.

Just as one gets the firstfruits of spiritual salvation in the life that now is, so we get the firstfruits of our physical salvation in the life that now is.

Strygalldwir is my name. Conjure with it and I will eat your heart and liver." "Conjure with it? I can't even pronounce it, and my cirrhosis would give you indigestion.