To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.

The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence.

Function influence but does not dictate form

I wanted to clear up the slum of legs… I wanted to make the chair all one thing again.

Confusion comes from trying to amalgamate several conflicting ideas.

What you newspaper and magazine writers, who work in rabbit time, don't understand is that the practice of architecture has to be measured in elephant time.

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room a room in a house a house in an environment an environment in a city plan.

Define success by your terms, not by other people’s standards.

I should become happier at what I do and leave others happier than before they’d met me.

Don't live your life like an attempt, because if you fail there is no second attempt.

I think stress is anything going on in our lives that impinges on our capacity to have optimum well being.

The relationship between Israel and the United States is a bond of - it’s just a very powerful bond. It was, it is, and will be and will continue to be.

All of Dad's relationships ended exactly the same: subpoena, beep of a moving van backing up the driveway, pile of his clothes burning on the front lawn.

What you must understand is that my voice comes from the energy of the audience. The better they are, the better I get.

I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me.

It's very hard for me to relax.

I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent.