“The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius...”

“The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather than in its disturbances and diseases.”

“Why should the constitution of a peaceful individual hold less weight than the constitution of a nation?”

“Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.”

“Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”

“Persons of genius are, ex vi termini, more individual than any other people - less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without hurtful compression, into any of the small number of moulds which society provides in order to save its members the trouble of forming their character.”