In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional.

The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains.

Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings ... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.

Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.

As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely.

A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.

I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.

Horizontal and vertical sprawl... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture.

Human intelligence is a limited resource. It cannot solve problems caused by ignoring fundamentals of existence.

You move gropingly, relying on your faith and act by your intuition

Intelligence won wars, not brute force.

Isn't it awkward how some people strive to progress in life, but when they see someone who is progressing, they become very envious?

Heart stop aching, mind stop thinking.

Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer space.

At a minimum if we can just have enough distribution of clout in society so it isn't run by a tiny minority, then at the very least it gives us some room to breathe.

All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

Everyday I see a little more of my father in me.

The greatest engineering is the engineering of men.

Aamir Khan told me that I was doing Sameer's character all wrong in Dil Chahta Hai