It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth.

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 world has changed from quality to quantity, and so have we.

People become successful the minute they decide to.

The more we can embrace failure, the more we will be able to open to it and the more confident and resilient we will become.

I like to be around entertaining people. Even if they're bored, and you're in a convalescent home, there's something entertaining about that, in a way.

So many times you see beautiful lovemaking scenes with a lot of exposure or an awkward lovemaking scene, but I think it's very rare that you see it private.

If you are a human being, you might as well face it. You are going to rub a lot of people the wrong way.

Exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year.

Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.

You get a wonderful view from the point of no return.

I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.