Love is the virtue of the Heart, Sincerity is the virtue of the Mind, Decision is the virtue of the Will, Courage is the virtue of the Spirit.

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 believe the term is ‘eminent domain.’Ah, yes. That means ‘theft by the government,

Life is a dream from which there is but one awakening.

Today like yesterday and the day before that, I will strive to achieve what tomorrow and the next day and the day after that, I have tried!

Never trust anyone under one hundred!

There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.

People are like nations-if you help them a lot, they hate you.

You must always be yourself, and do things at your own pace. Someday, you'll catch up.

One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.

I have terrible memory and really bad teeth as a result.

I suppose what's unique about our presentation is the amount of Scripture that kids get.