The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

The future of architecture is culture.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does?

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?

May your P&L account of deeds for humanity be in profits

Don't worry, my little lump of rock. Everybody gets a chance to choose. Or else where would irony come from?

When you think your life is falling apart, it's usually falling together in disguise.

The only thing I want more than you, is to do right by you.

School choice is one of the strongest ways we have to educate our children, .. believes in school choice and he is going to work hard to enact school choice.

Sometimes, everyone is right. Not always and not even usually, but once in a while, everyone is right.

Dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains, at midnight, in a dungeon in an obscure village of Missouri.

I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.

Self-defense is a part of the law of nature; nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself.