I can't do everything obviously although sometimes I know that all of us wish that we could.

In other words, I have no truck for anyone who goes out and does an eclectic building.

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.

I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future.

If you look at the buildings, you'll find that one part looks as if it was designed by one man, and you go around and look at another facade and it looks as if it was designed by another man, you see.

And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.

And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life.

Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously we are contributing to building better buildings more easily.

If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.

The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.

And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.

And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously.

And exciting buildings are fine periodically.

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.

In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of my ears in a sense.

The view outside was much more important than the exhibits.

In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.

I believe that we must understand the economy of the situation.

If you have white walls, human beings look better in a room than if you have red walls.

Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway.

I can't do everything obviously although sometimes I know that all of us wish that we could.

And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it's there like a piece of furniture.

I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see; our whole machine age has brought about a chaos that has to be somehow counterbalanced, I think.

The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus.

Let's talk about the Gas Company because this is my favorite job.

Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.

But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like.

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings dont go anywhere. They shouldnt be restless.

Music always came first. I never set out to be an actor.

I still do the standard editorial cartoon: that is my bread and butter. I absolutely love doing that.

Skinny guys fight till they're burger.

It's stupid to have a simple-minded view.

I haven't played a lot of wallflowers but I have played women who have been vulnerable.

I feel like I made it already, because I got already what everybody on the corners of the neighborhood I grew up in is striving to get.

I love seeing love. I had this one girl that I was really tryna go hard with, but it wasn't it.

You can do anything if you set your mind to it. Look out for kids, help them dream and be inspired. We teach calculus in schools, but I believe the most important formula is courage plus dreams equals success.

Open confession of dictatorship is far less dangerous than sham democracy. One can defend oneself against the former the latter is like a creeper attached to the body of a drowning man.

I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it was because I wasn't flying as much.

It depends on how it is done but what we are drifting into, which is that people grow up without any sense of a spiritual dimension to life, is just impoverishing.

The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden.

I try so hard not to think that I am a stranger in a strange land. But I know that I stand out.

My goal is to be the tough negotiator but... not to air differences through press releases.

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.

Often you find the character through the things they say. How they talk about other people, how they describe themselves - which is very rare.

My father had a difficult relationship with success, maybe because he never obtained it. But he was very wise about it because he observed how you can become rotten fruit once you get power.

It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

I've got really good friends and family. My parents, after 30 years, are still incredibly in love, still make each other laugh, which is a beautiful thing to see. And my brother and his fiance are completely happy, so if I feel a bit lonely, I just go and sit with them and feel their love.