I sense Light as the giver of all presences, and material as spent Light. What is made by Light casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light.

Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall. The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall.

We are born of light. The seasons are felt through light. We only know the world as it is evoked by light.

The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

Even a room which must be dark needs at least a crack of light to know how dark it is.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

A city is the place of availabilities. It is the place where a small boy, as he walks through it, may see something that will tell him what he wants to do his whole life.

Even a brick wants to be something

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

I Use The Square To Begin My Solutions Because The Square Is A Non-choice, Really. In The Course Of Development, I Search For The Forces That Would Disprove The Square.

I'm optimistic about the possibility of having a positive attitude

Part of keeping space open is not to try to choose a form - to spend more time thinking about content, and let form take care of itself.

I love you. Really, I do. Now love yourself more and each other a lot more. And please take care of this precious planet.

Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003.

The ghetto is not where you live. The ghetto is inside your mind. And anyone who tells you that you can't get out of the ghettos of your own mind has no idea what they're talking about.

I am not bigoted enough for a system-and not even for my system.

Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don’t change governments during war.

Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and landlords. Now, thanks to social media, it's all gone sideways.

The Indian idea is that the soul is formless. Whatever is form must break some time or other.

When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my own country may cease to want war, but above all that my country will cease to do the things that make war inevitable.