In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
At the beginning, I thought the best Islamic work was in Spain - the mosque in Cordoba, the Alhambra in Granada. But as I learned more, my ideas shifted. I traveled to Egypt, and to the Middle East ma...
The problem with a philosophy or a belief is that you soon start changing the facts to fit it.
Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point...
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.
Life is rich always changing always challenging and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood concrete glass and steel of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful...
The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily mean that he or she does not love you. And the fact that you are the only p...