Our architecture reflects truly as a mirror.

Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.

A proper building grows naturally, logically, and poetically out of all its conditions.

To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action.

Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.

How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to the light of day it crowds things in upon it that darken and weary it.

But the building's identity resided in the ornament.

Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.

Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.

What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?

Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome.

I have feelings from my soul that sometimes supersedes my humanness.

Love builds, encourages and strengthens.

One should love oneself enough not to love oneself too much.

I'll never get over the factthat the buildings all light up at night, and the night comes every nightand without regret we let it go.We sleep a little and we live.That's what we do.

To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.

...war is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.

When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots.

You're never quite sure how you feel about a neighbor until a 'For Sale' sign suddenly appears in front of his house.

There is no way of truly knowing where a road will lead until it is walked.

When people are inspired, they don't need motivation.