We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.

Most of the wonderful places in the world were not made by architects but by the people.

Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.

Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there.

All space and matter, organic or inorganic, has some degree of life in it, and matter/space is more alive or less alive according to its structure and arrangement.

People are deeply nourished by the process of creating wholeness.

When they have a choice, people will always gravitate to those rooms which have light on two sides, and leave the rooms which are lit only from one side unused and empty.

In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low.

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

Everyone is aware that most of the built environment today lacks a natural order, an order which presents itself very strongly in places that were built centuries ago

I'm tired of entirely new things, " Tremaine said. "I don't understand most of the old things yet.

We the people have more power than we know, and we must learn to use it judiciously.

The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed.

I'm so excited to act; that has been a huge passion for me.

The doctors are always changing their opinions. They always have some new fad.

The path of love is its own reward. Your love itself, that is what completes you.

I don't think anything needs to happen in a book.

Genius does not seem to derive any great support from syllogisms. Its carriage is free; its manner has a touch of inspiration. We see it come, but we never see it walk.

I didn't lose my mind, it was mine to give away

Music is good when it makes you dance. Music is great when it makes you who you are