The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

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 sweetness of adversity: we develop the sanity of solitude.

I love stories with a happy ending, ” Inspector Me said.

I don't like being best man at a wedding 'cause there's no way to prove it.

Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?

Well, whatever I am, I am the blonde!

The only thing I am interested in using mathematics for is to have a good time and to help others do the same.

You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.

Few topographical boundaries can rival the frontiers of the mind.

While we do not need art to live, I couldn't imagine a life without it.

Love without evidence is stalking.