I think architecture has to be a gift.

Art should be created for life, not for the museum

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.

Architecture exists, like cinema, in the dimension of time and movement

Space, space: architects always talk about space! But creating a space is not automatically doing architecture. With the same space, you can make a masterpiece or cause a disaster.

I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.

My buildings are more famous than me.

I generally hate the luxury modern apartment with too many things out of sight and so clean you cannot touch.

If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself!

I like English parks.

Magic can be found in stolen moments.

Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that.

My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.

Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be.

I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.

There's nothing wrong with being single and not getting married and being, you know, just an old single lady. Who cares?

He went down like a cheerleader after prom.

That's why you and I had friction? God, I always thought it was 'cause, 'cause I fooled around with your daughter freshman year.

Love starts with a gut feeling, but that gut feeling better be nourished.

We felt that the employees would take a greater interest in work if they felt they were part of the company.