"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."

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

"Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space."

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

"Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone."

"I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone."

"For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying."

"I want to be alone."