The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution.

Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall. The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall.

I sense Light as the giver of all presences, and material as spent Light. What is made by Light casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light.

We are born of light. The seasons are felt through light. We only know the world as it is evoked by light.

The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

Even a room which must be dark needs at least a crack of light to know how dark it is.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

A city is the place of availabilities. It is the place where a small boy, as he walks through it, may see something that will tell him what he wants to do his whole life.

Even a brick wants to be something

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

The essence of love is kindness.

There is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and naturalism

One positive statement of good is more powerful than 1,000 negative thoughts; and two positive statements of good are more powerful than 10,000 negative thoughts.

Faster roads are not always safer roads - and virtually all societies, democratic or authoritarian, prefer safety over speed, even if many of their citizens enjoy fast driving.

We can only win by giving everything and being ready to defeat the adversary with fiery aggression.

I always say that everyone has to start by being true to themselves.

No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.

Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.

I don't know everything; is the first statement of wanting to know

I'll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.