What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something imponderable, something that lies between things.

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood

Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

God is in the details.

We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself... New materials are not necessarily superior. Each material is only what we make it.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be.

It is better to be good than to be original.

Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.

Success is a decision, not a gift.

Attitude is something that comes to your rescue when you're looking for help from external sources.

Hope! Of all the ills that men endure the only cheap and universal cure.

In high school, I worked eight hours a day just so I could get into the college of my dreams and say that I got in - and I never went.

With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.

If you can wiggle your toes with the mere flicker of an intention, why can't you reset your biological clock?

When your consciousness is directed outward, mind and world arise. When it is directed inward, it realises its own Source and returns home into the Unmanifested.

There is no accident so unfortunate but wise men will make some advantage of it, nor any so entirely fortunate but fools may turn it to their own prejudice.

A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.

When we give up on our dreams, we die while still alive.