The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future.

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

Technology cannot be an end in itself but must aim at solving long term social and ecological problems.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

As architects we have a responsibility to society

I don't understand why everyone has to wear black, grey and white.

As an artist, what do you think the biggest mistake you can make is? My vote for the biggest mistake is being afraid of making mistakes.

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

It's not so easy... it's not possible.

Sometimes I write well when I'm very upset.

The first thing you have to learn is how to conduct dialogue and how to make it productive.

May liberal men abound with us! May our knowledge of the Vedas and our progeny increase! May faith not forsake us! May we have much to give to the needy.

I baptize you not in the name of the father, but in the name of the devil. (Ego baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli.)

To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade.

The biggest fight in my life is not in boxing. The biggest fight in my life is how to end poverty in my country.

The proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives. Today sometimes it seems that the opposite order is prevailing.

You cannot kill an ideology with a bullet. You can only kill it with a better idea.

Few topographical boundaries can rival the frontiers of the mind.