Inconsistency itself breeds vitality.

Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity.

In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.

Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.

Nevertheless, the basic forms, spaces, and appearances must be logical

I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning

I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter

I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s.

I was on the point of breaking off the conversation, for nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

You should feel good about yourself because of your accomplishments. Not because somebody yelled at you to feel good about yourself.

Hillary Clinton was saying Bill Clinton has tendencies toward being sexist.

We used to be calorie poor and now the problem is obesity. We used to be data poor, now the problem is data obesity.

A good deed is a good deed.

[A.J. Muste] was very influenced - in - influential in the peace movement, in the civil rights movement.

Every season of life has its compensations.

I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes.

I tried not to get too addicted to reading the Whedonesque website, because it could become obsessive. They were a charming and loyal bunch of people to whom I'm eternally grateful.

It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.