Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly.

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 devotion of one man had given strength and courage to all.

And then like a song we'd forgotten was even on the mix, you stepped into the house and my whole life.

You can stand on a stage in New York City and make very strong statements, but now everyone has to be held accountable equally.

I want to go home and just go for a long walk. And where I want to go, I have no idea

I'm just a sucker for new-agey synth sounds and instrumentation. I wasn't really thinking of soft rock, but I know that kind of quiet-storm format uses a lot of these sounds.

Protecting our second amendment will make America great again.

Be a collector of good ideas, but don't trust your memory. The best collecting place for all of the ideas and information that comes your way is your journal.

Fighters used to be afraid of the Russians, Cubans but then I'd figure them out and figure out how to beat them.

I tend to put my foot in my mouth. I'm not good at being diplomatic. I tend to piss people off.

From Bill Clinton speech- People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power.