It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise.

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood

Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

God is in the details.

We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself... New materials are not necessarily superior. Each material is only what we make it.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be.

It is better to be good than to be original.

Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

I am a part of all that I have met.

I suffer from the congenital weakness of believing I can do anything.

The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.

The best work flows from us effortlessly. Allow the gifts of spirit to come to you.

Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement.

It is one thing to see your road, another to cut it.

You can't put civil rights on the ballot.

Memory is a great deceiver: it embroiders until naught is left but the glory and the pleasure.

The real value of tests is not that they detect bugs in the code but that they detect inadequacies in the methods, concentration, and skills of those who design and produce the code.