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.

First you have to learn to do something, then you can go out and do it.

History must be documented

Be willing to launch in faith, with no guarantees of success. This is the mark of personal greatness

That's one of the actor's secrets: With everything you do, learn something new about yourself.

I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.

The world is weary of hate. We see the fatigue overcoming the Western nations.

You can't conserve what you haven't got.

My mother would put me on a wooden box at the stove and tell me to call her if certain things would happen. Like if the steam turns blue, that is danger!

Getting down to the nitty-gritty, most people are motivated by unconscious motives most of the time.

That which is good to be done, cannot be done too soon; and if it is neglected to be done early, it will frequently happen that it will not be done at all.

As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.