Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and shade reveal these forms.

The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.

The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.

You don't start a revolution by fighting the state but by presenting the solutions.

A house is a machine for living in.

Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.

If we are living according to what we believe, we may be falsely accused.

Change is neither good nor bad. It creates different situations, and that difference is what we have to understand, embrace and explore as an opportunity.

You will find that our enemies are our own kin. It is they who betray us. So learn this most important lesson-in the end, our worst enemy is ourselves

Love is a sudden revelation: a kiss is always a discovery

Because of my acting career, I've had to bounce from city to city and get in the groove in the studio.

Mary Baker Eddy is said to have had a phone installed in her coffin just in case she happened to wake up. I've been told that's an urban myth. Somebody should check it out.

Working in an open air is a magic! If you are tired of the walls surrounding you, work in the fields to heal yourself!

All successful people - not just entrepreneurs - have got things wrong over and over again before finding the right solution.

Some people like to call me cocky or arrogant, but I just think 'how dare you assume I should think less of myself'

Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.