The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.

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.

It was at Long Huruk that we encountered the vortex of the dream time of which we had so far only touched the periphery, for this was the semi-nomadic community of mystics and dream wanderers.

We can’t remain silent on gender rights and personal freedoms.

I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.

I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.

I don't distinguish between men and women. This is irrelevant to me, and I don't think in these terms.

I'm pretty sure I'm going to fall in my GaGa shoes one night on tour and I'm hoping it becomes a Youtube sensation.

Yesterday was a memory. Tomorrow was a hope. Today was another day to live and do one's best to love

The truly wise man is he who always believes the Bible against the opinions of any man.

The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

You don't build it for yourself. You know what the people want and you build it for them.