My denial and irresponsible attitude about asthma put me at great risk and caused me so much needless suffering. My hope is that the kids I talk to learn to open up about their asthma become educated about their condition and seek help.

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions it is governed by our mental attitude.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

For art to exist for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.

There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror.

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.