True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood

Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

God is in the details.

We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself... New materials are not necessarily superior. Each material is only what we make it.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be.

It is better to be good than to be original.

Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.

I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to.

The world is in need of the unique purpose you were created for

It pains me to admit this, but Roger was a good sight less stupid than most children.

The only thing we chase our shots with are high-fives.

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

Everyone asks how I felt before the perfect game. You never feel bad when you're in the World Series. You've got all winter to rest.

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

You know Death will get you in the end, but if you are smart and have a sense of humor, you can thumb your nose at it for awhile

Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.

I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: "If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing."