To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject - architecture - that I had already faced in building some small houses.

For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.

Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand.

Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.

Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin or a skull, but you don't know what's inside.

A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art.

I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth.Although my mind was sky-bound, the shadow of my body lies

Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.

I deeply believe that marriage is by nature between a man and a woman, but that conviction does not prevent me from recognising that other forms of affective relationships exist.

Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.

By pursuing your allurements, you help bind the universe together. The unity of the world rests on the pursuit of passion.

Money that may never be spent is nothing but a miser's toy. Saving as an exercise in self-denial is an invalid goal, a sick use of money.

Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.

People sometimes don't like organized situations. Sometimes people need to be left alone more. Sometimes people need environmental support.

If you're comfortable with yourself-which everyone can get to, to some extent-that's when you start getting into who is your real self.

Big doors swing on little hinges.