The individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us.

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood

Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

God is in the details.

We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself... New materials are not necessarily superior. Each material is only what we make it.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be.

It is better to be good than to be original.

Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.

Anzia popote pale ulipo kwa chochote ulichonacho, Ipo siku utakuwa mtu fulan uliyetaman kuwa kwa miaka mingi

Create your own world where you can do what you want for yourself and for others. Those people who live in others' world all the time, remain in the same place from where they had started.

No trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of wounds and across boundaries.

I got started acting by going to auditions that my mom found in the entertainment section of our local news paper. Then, I got a manager and started going out on more auditions.

We'll have these people hang out with us while we're doing our touring, and talk to them and let them speak their piece to the world.

Every couple of years, we could dispatch people from Earth to Mars.

No man is broken because bad things happen to him. He’s broken because he doesn’t keep going after those things happen.

Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live

An educated man is one who has the loves and hatreds together.

I think we are all overcoming tiny obstacles every second of every day even if that means just a small shift in perspective.