The past is always with us, for it feeds the present.

求知若饥，虚心若愚。

Architecture must serve the many, not just the few.

There's a violence in the act of making.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Success is a great deodorant.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.