I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

The future of architecture is culture.

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does?

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.

You can create the best out of your life by understanding the wealth of time and converting that time into the life that you were created to live.

Nobody can see pain. They have no frame of reference for pain that's happening to someone else. They can only see inactivity - which they interpret as laziness.

His lips touched mine and I lost my breath. Everything slipped away until there was only him. - Natasha

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.

Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.

The first person you lead is you.

The important thing about Paris is not so much that one sees exciting work, but one meets people who feel that art is worth living completely for. This whole atmosphere is very good for work.

Some people say you have to be a Christian to be saved. I had to stop being Christian to be saved.

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.

Daniel gave all the glory to God; he took none of it for himself. There is no limit to what God will do for the believer who will let God have all the glory.