You really don't want a job. What you want is access to those things you'd like to have.

We have more than enough resources in the world. The only thing we don't have is brains in Washington.

There's no way to design a society that's optimal or utopian. It's better than the one that was. Systems always undergo change.

Architects are mostly self-centered and their buildings express their ego. [They are] not social buildings to make it more comfortable for people - to make life better for people. The cities have to be designed so people can get together and talk with one another.

There is no such thing as beauty. If your culture says, 'This is a beautiful girl,' that's within the framework of your culture. If you're brought up in an island where people have pointed heads, that would be 'beautiful' in your terms. All these mythological structures is what gets us into trouble; the artificiality of our values that get us into trouble.

No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns.

Don't get mad at me cause I call something a 'nothing thing'. I mean it's nothing in terms of the majority of people.... I'm not that concerned with my son. I'm more concerned with all people. I look at all people as brothers and sisters. I have no priority for members of the family.