Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

Very often I realize that the time people spend apart is as important in maintaining relationships as the time they spend together.

Those least responsible for climate change are worst affected by it.

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.

We protest solemnly in the face of mankind, that we desire peace at any sacrifice, save that of honor.

What does not kill you will make you stronger and more cynical.

What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty.

Everything new stalls because there is precedence for the old

The audience can feel the subtleties of the characters.

People like Chris Nolan are shooting isolated sequences in IMAX. Those cameras are the size of a Volkswagen.