A man with a machine may murder or enslave millions, whereas it used to take at least thousands to murder millions. And the man behind the machine has nothing on his conscience.

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.

The secret to happiness is complaining very little.

Money the root of evil guess I'm the devil then. God bless my soul to rest.

From sports the greatest thing I've learned is discipline achieves goals.

The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

I forced myself to picture the last moments. The penultimate breath. A final sigh. And yet. It was always followed by another.

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.