“Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.”

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

“What people want, above all, is order.”

“Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.”

“French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.”

“The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.”

“What worked yesterday doesn't always work today.”

“The vision of your tomorrow that you have today strengthens you for the morrow”

“Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.”

“Some of the greatest journeys of humankind are those that, at the time being, only the one living it understands.”

“The greatest success is how much impact was made”

“The greatest policy is where there are no policies!”

“Flexibility is the greatest strength.”

“What I always say is that Japanese are like willow. We can be bent easily, but once you try to break us, it would not be so easy.”

“When we arrived at my home north of the city, my five-year-old son Magnus, brimming with the confidence he'd gained in two full weeks of kindergarten, opened the front door and asked John, "Is it t...”