When you make something, cleaning it out of structural debris is one of the most vital things you do.

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.

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.

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.

True music begins when the song of your soul finds its tune and the emotions of your heart find their voices.

Ugly ducklings often turn into beautiful swans when they are tested.

Do not have as friends harmful people, the wise person does not associate with the worst of people. Have as friends virtuous people, the wise person associates with the best of people.

Once you win, you have no doubt that you can win. So you have gone through it once, and you can do it again.

I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.

On your 60th, here's something philosophical To give the old grey matter a stir How old would you be If you didn't know how old you were?

For me, closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your seed corn to save a little money.

Technology can be used that way and it can also be used in other ways.

While the Nation has forbidden monopoly by one set of laws it has been creating them by another. Patent laws, valuable as they may be in some respects, often father monopoly.

You can be sure that over the next 10 years, you'll see something that you did not think was possible.