Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.

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.

I hate being told what to do! Especially by myself!

Im not really Type A, but A minus.

Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.

Evaluations, in essence, are... ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.

I like the team effort of everyone pulling together to make one good project.

Boston is large enough to learn your independence and small enough to make your own.

No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they’ll see tomorrow.

I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar.

I believe that if doors don't open, make new doors. So I also have started producing quite a bit of things as well.

What's happening right now in the Hip Hop industry is that it is deeply affected by the general economy of America.