We must have order, allocating to each thing its proper place and giving to each thing is due according to its nature.

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.

We do not stop dreaming and producing because we grow old

The number of your antagonists are far more greater than that of your companions, so you have to keep a stone of awareness to mark the boundary line.

God was inviting me to go on Hajj, but before that I needed to settle my debts. Muslims may only embark on their pilgrimage if they are debt-free or at least have made an arrangement for repayment.

Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the field of air.

I'm a risk-taker. I like to test myself.

I hope I don't become just an animation [with a digital film].

Broadcasting is easy; you just talk until you think of something to say.

Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog.

Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.

Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).