You can't understand a city without using its public transportation system.

Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost.

Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities contain the seeds of their own regeneration, with energy enough to carry over for problems and needs outside themselves.

Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy.

It is not an individual act, architecture. You have to consider your client. Only out of that can you produce great architecture. You cannot work in the abstract.

Turn your weakness into your richness.