Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.

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.

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.

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

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.

We are what ballads are written of, what bards sing of. We are epic, you and I.

You can be proud of your country and culture and, at the same time, recognize that there is something that's wrong that needs to be changed.

(Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being especially free from admirers then.

Ultimately, I want to be a good person and spread happiness through my acting. If I don't forget to be appreciative and thankful, then that would be the most important thing that I'll ever achieve.

Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.

I place a lot of emphasis on process and revision because I believe that all of my students can become better writers through hard work.

Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy.

The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.

This college would probably have the same problem as the last one did." I frowned, "What's that?" "Homework.

It is the disease of not listening...... that I am troubled with.