“A vault, a dome, is also a choice of a character of light.”
—
“And where does the architect sit? He sits right there; he is the one who conveys the beauty of spaces, which is the very meaning of architecture. Think of a meaningful space and you invent an environment, and it can be your invention. [...]

“The way one does things is private, but what one does can belong to everybody. Your greatest worth is in the area where you can claim no ownership, and the part that you do that doesn’t belong to you is the most precious. It is the kind of thing you can offer because it is [...]

“From beauty, Wonder. Wonder has nothing to do with knowledge. It is a first response to the intuitive, the intuitive being the odyssey, or the record of the odyssey, of our making through the untold billions of years of making. I don’t believe that one thing started at one time and another started at another [...]

“Everybody is not equally talented. They are all marvelous, yes, but not equal. There is no person without talent. Talent prevails everywhere, but the question is in what way your singularity can blossom, because you cannot learn anything that is not part of yourself.
[…]
I revere learning because it is a fundamental inspiration. It isn’t just [...]

“There is a distinction between nature’s laws and our rules. We work by rules, but we employ nature’s laws to make something. The rule is made to be changed, but nature cannot change its laws. If it did, there would be no Order whatsoever. There would be what we think is chaos. The laws of [...]

You don’t need to do anything to reach God, to reach enlightenment, to awaken. There is no one who can take you to God. [..] There’s only one living being, and want it or not, resist it or not, effortlessly you are with God already. The only thing left is to enjoy your life, to [...]

“Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak. But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world within words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. [...]