Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.

I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.

A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.

The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.

Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one.

Higher ceilings allow the use indirect lighting, which is much healthier and reduces glare.

When I think of some of my earlier work, it really seems a fortunate coincidence that I succeeded.

A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It's not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it.

You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner.

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.

Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.

Happiness is a fantasy that real people know doesn't exist.

I attend Trinity United Church of Christ, and my pastor [was] Jeremiah Wright.

Imagination is intervention, an act of defiance. It alters belief.

The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.

Whatever the color of a man's skin, we are all mankind. So every denial of freedom, of equal opportunity for a livelihood, or for an education, diminishes me.

Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

Unfortunately, nuclear weapons have become identified with state power.

Good character improves every aspect of a person’s life.

Stephen Hawking implies that we are living in a Godless Universe or a Kingless Kingdom! In that case, Mankind must ascend the throne.

Love is the distance between reality and pain.