in architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building to demonstrate it.

Whoever defends his own rights defends the rights of all.

There are no contradictions. If you find one, check your premises.

Great men can't be ruled.

To achieve, you need thought

Let me be the child in the story and declare that the Emperor is naked — or that America is culturally bankrupt.

There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks through the city, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare speak.