Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.

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.

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.

You are the only one that is responsible for loving your life unconditionally, no matter the level of its flaws.

Your weight is merely a symptom of your diet and lifestyle.

God does not change - and neither does His love. He loved you before you were born... He loves you now... and He will love you forever.

There was a flight from Cleveland to New York City with just two people on board. There hasn't been two people on an airplane since the Wright brothers.

Jesus washing the disciples feet is the most supreme act of humility in all of God’s word.

The thing I always thought of myself as was an actress. I never thought: I want to be. It was always: I am.

The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.

Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.

I have a huge relationship with Brazil; it's almost a love affair, I would say. And to me, to introduce that specific martial art like capoeira in Hollywood movies was something important to me.