Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.

I think to be creative you have to resist taking the easy path.

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious

Architecture is not just for the moment, it is not just for the next fashion magazine.

Be innovative. Don't listen to the tried and tested wisdom. Take a risk!

When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily.

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.

What is a habit? It’s just a shackle for ourselves.

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

And, yes, I love the process of building.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

When nothing is for sure, we remain alert, perennially on our toes. It is more exciting not to know which bush the rabbit is hiding behind than to behave as though we knew everything.

There are none so low but they have their triumphs. Small successes suffice for small souls.

I love to feel that I'm not above anyone.

If you look at communal experiments in general for any amount of time, you'll find a lot of horrors: raped children, sexual slavery, eugenics experiments, on and on.

Americans are so spoiled. They think you always have to have a car, whereas I got away on my own two feet.

Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.

Criticism is the fountainhead of control.