It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure.

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.

Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.

The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.

God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.

Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.

We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.

I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.

While wisdom dictates the need for education, education does not necessarily make one wise.

The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worship is to take things for granted...Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin.

In every day waits fortune like a seed ready to sprout.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.

And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.

Toward the end of his life, one can sense that he was no longer thinking his way into the minds of others, causing them to speak on his behalf, but that he was now speaking for himself.

I'm just not very good at glamour... It doesn't come easily to me.

I totally have no love for that whole romance for that Antebellum time period.

It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver.