You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.

Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don’t.

It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless.

If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.

Architecture is an expression of values.

Since Stonehenge, architects have always been at the cutting edge of technology. And you cant separate technology from the humanistic and spiritual content of a building.

The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.

I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.

Our object in life should be to accumulate a great number of grand questions to be asked and resolved in eternity.

I am always surprised by how much little emphasis schools of architecture, and indeed, many architects, place on the process of the mating of a building.

I think you never stop learning.

You have no control over what happens to you! You can only pray for grace and strength to endure any situation.

Absence of worldly misery - that is called eternal bliss.

Life is like the clouds we see everyday.The dark, white patches and its mixtures.These are what we see and experience everyday.

You have got to own your days and live them each one of them every one of them or else the years go right by and none of them belong to you.

Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.

If you can't understand the spec for a new technology, don't worry: nobody else will understand it either, and the technology won't be that important.

Vision without execution is delusion. The joy is in the results

The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.

The sun gives you ulcers, the wind gives you T.B. Once you were beautiful.

A mouth that has no moisture and no breath Breathless mouths may summon; I hail the superhuman; I call it death-in-life and life-in-death.