There is always a point when one senses ones lack of skill, the doubt

Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio.

Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training.

The primary factor is proportions.

People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it.

I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.

It may sound affected - but it is the act of creation itself, and it is equally exhilarating whether one is working on a teaspoon or a national bank.

A pastry usually tastes better if it looks nice. A cream pastry, now that looks nice - in fact, there is nothing I mind as long as it looks nice.

If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.

Enjoy your own authentic stupidity rather than strive vainly to be wise.

I want to be great or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber so I don't intend to try any more.

Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.

I love kids. I just love kids. They put you in a good mood and they are so full of life.

You're looking for a mispriced gamble. That's what investing is. And you have to know enough to know whether the gamble is mispriced. That's value investing.

I don't call myself an 'industrial designer,' because I'm other things. Industrial designers want to make novel things. Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.

I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.

No rebounds, no rings.

Mercy is the true power that can save humanity and the world from sin and evil.

I prefer hallucinations cause they tend to make more sense than experience.