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

And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.

A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.

I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other.

The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution.

I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.

My buildings should have an emotional core - a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.