"You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests."

"Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell."

"But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago."

"There is always a point when one senses one's lack of skill, the doubt."

"No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby."

"A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into."

"Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency."

"Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive."