I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.

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.

One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.

Life is what you make it and faith is what brings it to reality. -CF

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it for it is a faculty of the psyche.

Stereotypes are based on the idea that two heads are bigger than one.

When someone who loves and cares about me compliments me, I feel more glamorous than when the flashbulbs are going off on the red carpet.

If the President asked you to help, I don't think anybody could refuse, unless one felt that one couldn't be effective.

Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.

Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen.

I would not rob you of your food or your clothes or your umbrella, but if I caught your German out I would take it. But I don't study any more,- I have given it up.

It never ceases to amaze me that in times of amazing human suffering somebody says something that can be so utterly stupid