Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

The English light is so very subtle so very soft and misty that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

All architecture is shelter all great architecture is the design of space that contains cuddles exalts or stimulates the persons in that space.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

It is impossible as impossible as to raise the dead to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman can never be recalled.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art like the art of fireworks.

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture their amphitheaters for wild beasts to fight in.

The greatest advances of civilization whether in architecture or painting in science and literature in industry or agriculture have never come from centralized government.

Even at the United Nations where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent one window not so great.

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique poetic products of the heart.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

This year as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America's independence please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly Old Glory high and show your respect and admiration for this great nation and the values we hold dear.

This anniversary serves to help remind the American people that in the wake of one of the greatest political scandals and misuse of power in our history as a nation scandal produced important reforms that served this nation well for two decades.

After my second-to-last record 'The Greatest' I had gone on tour for a while and I didn't play an instrument for about five years. And I got kind of - it's not self-esteem or whatever or anger toward myself - but disappointed in myself that I hadn't been challenging myself to learn musically.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out and when it does come it is out again immediately.

I did not want to put myself on the line as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation.

If anger proceeds from a great cause it turns to fury if from a small cause it is peevishness and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.

Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.

Anger is a great force. If you control it it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can't seem to stop themselves from displaying their ridiculous behaviour. I feel it's my job as a serious investigative journalist to witness all kinds of behaviour and then report back to the audience through the prism of my own anger and bitterness.