Since Stonehenge, architects have always been at the cutting edge of technology. And you can't separate technology from the humanistic and spiritual content of a building.

Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don’t.

It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless.

If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.

Architecture is an expression of values.

Since Stonehenge, architects have always been at the cutting edge of technology. And you cant separate technology from the humanistic and spiritual content of a building.

The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.

You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.

I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.

Our object in life should be to accumulate a great number of grand questions to be asked and resolved in eternity.

I am always surprised by how much little emphasis schools of architecture, and indeed, many architects, place on the process of the mating of a building.

I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.

The pursuit of your vision determines your focus

Art not only imitates nature but also completes its deficiencies.

What makes our poetry so contemptible nowadays is its paucity of ideas. If you want to be read, invent. Who the Devil wouldn't like to read something new?

You can lead a heart to love, but you can't make it fall.

Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict.

Go sweep out the chamber of your heart. Make it ready to be the dwelling place of the Beloved. When you depart out, He will enter it. In you, void of yourself, will He display His beauties.

There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state.

It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.