I know the price of success: dedication hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

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 am fearless because I know the power of my love and beauty of my soul.

We want to change from featureless caterpillars to become beautiful butterflies, and the change takes place wrapped up in our own little cocoons.

Never allow the ill-thoughts of people stop you from pursuing your goals and dreams.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.

I initially felt shy about doing painting because I wasn't a professional painter. I almost felt like I didn't deserve to paint. But I have gradually adopted a different kind of attitude about this.

Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity.

Your life is too valuable to waste being distracted.

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

The U.S. cannot go it alone simply when it is convenient.