Function influence but does not dictate form

The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence.

To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.

I wanted to clear up the slum of legs… I wanted to make the chair all one thing again.

Confusion comes from trying to amalgamate several conflicting ideas.

What you newspaper and magazine writers, who work in rabbit time, don't understand is that the practice of architecture has to be measured in elephant time.

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room a room in a house a house in an environment an environment in a city plan.

Show me that I m everywhere and get me home for tea.

Christian hands never clasp and He doesn't give gifts for gain because a gift can never stop being a gift - it is always meant to be given.

We have to be successful at the cutting-edge industries of the future like Twitter. But we also have always been a country that makes stuff.

If you are living in the past or in the future, you will never find a meaning in the present.

A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe.

The spirit of democracy... requires change of the heart... requires the inculcation of the spirit of brotherhood.

A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!

The poets who do this are uniquely conscious of this silence, this stillness.

The Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the human mind degraded by believing it.

He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] never went to church, but he read the Bible every day and regarded himself as one of the world's two great defenders of Christendom. (The other was the pope.)