Alvar Aalto

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.

Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.