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.

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 got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

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.

Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path. An accumulation of small acts can change the world.

No matter how lovesick a woman is she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.

You have to give yourself credit, not too much because that would be bragging.

Brad [Pitt], poor geezer, was blown up, thrown around, burned, slapped, frozen. But never a moan or a whine. Now that's what I call a real star.

No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.

If you're not the one cooking, stay out of the way and compliment the chef.

Lasting companies know how to reinvent themselves.