The Fujiyama of Architecture?at once a lofty mountain and a national shrine.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.

Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.

Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

Life is miraculous and love is the miracle.

Until you truly let go, until you truly form humility, can you find empathy and in that empathy you find contact and in that contact you find out who you truly are, and who the people are around you.

To be envied for your giftedness is better than to be accepted for your untalentedness.

Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.

I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.

Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.

I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.

A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.

That which is inherent in man is his virtue.

A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.