"I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own."

"Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom."

"Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise."

"We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same."

"There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish."

"Nature teaches us a valuable lesson: the simplest acts of love resonate the loudest."

"The stoutest timber is forged in the fiercest gales, not in the sheltered grove. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."

"Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever."