The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.

Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.

Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.

Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.

Supply and demand regulate architectural form.

The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.

Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art.

There is no organ inside our body that does not serve a vital purpose

It needs a very long time to earn a great respect but it just needs a few second to spoil all respect...

The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy.

In times of sorrow, be still.

In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.

Acquaintance softens prejudice.

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

Onstage I'm the happiest person in the world.

If it doesn't seem like I'm working hard sometimes, that's someone else's problem.

Her [Sarah Palin] son went to Iraq under George W. Bush, but it gives us a chance to explain what post-traumatic stress disorder is.