The best clients in the world are the people who cause you to struggle.

The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us.

I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.

If you want to show a picture, just show it - don't spend too much time arranging it.

Architecture is definitely a political act.

The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture.

I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?'

Architects design houses. I live in a home.

The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.

I don't design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don't believe in it as a concept.

I am not a finisher, I am a starter. And I am always thinking, what is the next project.

Maybe he wouldn't end up the kind of man who needed to use his body for work. Maybe he'd be a new kind of black man altogether, one who got to use his mind.

Or what man is there of you whom if his son ask bread will he give him a stone?

What man can imagine he may one day achieve.

It has been said "the truth will make men free". The truth alone has never set anyone free. It is only DOUBT which will bring mental emancipation.

People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.

If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.

Rigorous financial discipline that, together with monetary stability, ends once and for all the boom and bust that for 30 years has undermined stability

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight.

Stolen kisses require an accomplice.