Form follows function.

Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.

A proper building grows naturally, logically, and poetically out of all its conditions.

To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action.

Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.

How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to the light of day it crowds things in upon it that darken and weary it.

But the building's identity resided in the ornament.

Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.

Our architecture reflects truly as a mirror.

Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.

What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?

Teach the people the Word before converting and baptizing them

The biblical stories are the greatest sacred-inspirations.

Nothing is hurt unless you are negative thinker

You should never attack a necromancer in a cemetery

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.

I had a bad stutter when I was really young. I couldn't get a sentence out. Like, 'D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-ad.' And that turned into a mumble.

I'd like to be more approachable, not less weird

I'm not trying to plant the seed that I'm the most fashionable NBA guy - of course, I think that in my own mind.

A top aide to Donald Trump says he quit the campaign this weekend because of Trump's public feuds, but Trump said he was fired. When asked what he was fired for, Trump said, 'Quitting!'

We must think of innovation as doing a lot more for a lot less (money) for a lot more (people).