Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.

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.

Failure is information encased in a shell of pain.

It was one of those striking moments in life where you find familiarity in the inexplicable.

The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.

When one looks truly at the good side of everyone, others come to love him very naturally, and he does not need even a speck of flattery.

Americans' right to free speech should not be proportionate to their bank accounts.

The way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.

And Love, our light at night and shade at noon,Lulls us to rest with songs, and turns awayAll shafts of shelterless tumultuous day.

Wherever we may come alive, that is the area in which we are spiritual.

That's what I hope to put out onto the pitch - a team that knows how to win matches.

Instinct leads, logic does but follow.