However often the thread may be torn out of your hands, you must develop enough patience to wind it up again and again.

Limitation makes the creative mind inventive.

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.

The mind is like an umbrella. Its most useful when open.

The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation.

Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.

A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.

Have faith in your beliefs

If you have felt any ounce of fear, insecurity, and uncertainty during your work day, then you might be an entrepreneur.

Of course, I think that people are just waiting for that time when I make a mistake and they're gonna jump on it.... There's gonna be haters.

I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.

Keep your sense of humor. As General Joe Stillwell said, 'The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his behind'.

I just wanted it to be American.

If you don't have the gift of a loving supportive family, be that gift for someone else. It doesn't have to be a relative, just someone you know who is alone or hurting over the holiday.

I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here.

The sign says do not enter, no trespassing allowed. With visions of redemption I walk against the crowd.

I could have gone professional, but I'm not giving up on my dream.