Loneliness was the price of the quest. I don't belong to the people who cannot live alone

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood

Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

God is in the details.

We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself... New materials are not necessarily superior. Each material is only what we make it.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be.

It is better to be good than to be original.

Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.

It is not 2006 all over the world. So who are you in a place where 1950 or 1920 is about to arrive?

... I am dark but fair, / Black but fair.

I most fear stupid people. Stupid people will do anything. Truly smart people will do only what is logical for them to do.

Most organizations fail in driving change.

Space has a way of looking. It seems like it has a presence of vision. When you come into it, it is there, it’s been waiting for you.

If you come from money and you become an addict, you go to the Betty Ford Clinic, you get treatment. If you're living on the street and you're an addict, it's much harder to find your way out.

A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized.

If you wish to form a clear judgment on your friends, consult your dreams.

Life itself is a strange mixture. We have to take it as it is, try to understand it, and then to better it.

One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them.