Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.

Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity.

Inconsistency itself breeds vitality.

In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.

Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

Nevertheless, the basic forms, spaces, and appearances must be logical

I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning

I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter

I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s.

Life is not about success

Mercy, how we do so often love to immortalize those despised and forgotten in life.

When I leap, I briefly see the world as it is and as it should be.

A saint is a person who gives of themself without asking for anything in return. That's how simple it is to be a saint. Try it! Try being a saint

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

Pardons and pleasantnesse are great revenges of slanders.

The thing to do with money is to put it back into yourself, into your work, into the thing that is important, into whatever you are so much interested in that it is more important than money.

Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.

Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart.

Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.