The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.

Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.

Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.

Supply and demand regulate architectural form.

The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.

Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art.

The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.

If your thoughts and beliefs are always in support of your destiny, happiness would become an instant gift, while success would only become a matter of time.

Words create conceptions and self-conceptions and ultimately nations. They can start and stop wars. They can would and heal. Choosing words carefully is a moral responsibility.

I shall go Up and down In my gown. Gorgeously arrayed, Boned and stayed.

She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.

Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in kind.

I contemplate the body, dead and diseased as well as alive and healthy.

Minimize your therbligs until it becomes automatic; this doubles your effective lifetime - and thereby gives time to enjoy butterflies and kittens and rainbows.

Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.

My relationships are based on personal reciprocity. Being a Dodger was a matter of heart, but in the end I felt they didn't want me.