Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children.

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.

..balancing time you spend with or without people is crucial for mental health.

I never get bored. There isn't enough time in the day for me.

This is about Floridians saying whats most important to them and making sure that we create an agenda that we can drive and deliver back in Washington, D.C. So its very exciting.

The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.

It is quite easy for me to think of a God of love mainly because I grew up in a family where love was central and where lovely relationships were ever present.

Happiness is the result of an attitude of mind. I believe you can build it out of small things.

It's not a very big one, but at least it's dead and it took an awful lot of killing!

Democracy feeds on argument, on the discussion as to the right way forward. This is the reason why respecting the opinion of others belongs to democracy.

I always wanted to be on a sitcom.

The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the teacup opens A lane to the land of the dead.