"I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game."

"It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out."

"I think architecture has to be a gift."

"Each new situation requires a new architecture."

"The reality, I believe, is that all change starts small. The big picture is just too unwieldy, too incomprehensible and seemingly immovable. But give us something individual, quantifiable and personalize-able and, suddenly, our perspective shifts to the one."

"Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self."

"It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive."

"It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular."