Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity

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.

A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.

It is when life pushes you down that you learn to get up and go higher.

Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.

An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular.

Geography is crucial for my work. I went to Antarctica and took a studio to several of the main ice fields to make field recordings of ice to create a symphony - acoustic portraits of ice.

I don't think I've ever had a woman yell that at me, but women have yelled mean things at me as well.

Number was the substance of all things.

If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)

The Bible is God's love letter to us