If you keep changing for every person who tells you to, then who's going to be left? Why get the success and be somebody else?
I find if my body feels well and I exercise regularly, I think better, work better and feel better.
I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.
A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.
A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It's not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it.
Most architects say: I want to use this type of glass, even if it's too reflective or doesn't let enough light in. However, the use of a certain type of glass might change the comfort level.
A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.
The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it.
Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens.
It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
Don't obey God to get things. Obey God to get God. He is your shield and your very great reward.