The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

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.

Americans bred like rabbits, expecting the reaper to slaughter at least a few before they reached ripeness.

I don't know why, but watching someone else break made me feel a lot less broken.

On him who wields power gently, the god looks favorably from afar.

It's hard to be taken seriously if you're a young, female artist making pop music; you never know how people are going to react.

A courageous warrior knows that she is powerfully sourced by something much greater than herself and that she can release the judgments of others.

I think there's a part in each one of us that wants the impossible to happen, and that's what surprises are.

I am the son and grandson of Navy admirals, and I was born into America's service. It wasn't until I was deprived of her company that I fell in love with America.

There's so many young peoople who start to play basketball and never learn the fundamentals.

I don't plan on selling out. I mean, it's nice to get a dinner reservation ahead of other people, but when it comes down to it, the most important thing to me is the actual work.

I learned in an extremely hard way that the accountability falls with me.