Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination

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 successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

This was what we did as a species, after all: we built ingenious devices, and we destroyed things.

commitment stays on, both in good and in bad, for better for worste

If we only knew the real value of a day.

From the season I did the butterfly faux tattoos on the models on the runway, every collection we do has to have a butterfly t-shirt or trim or print. People come to me for butterflies!

You know the wisdom is reflected in the knowledge when it's manifested; If not fed in due time, the mind is anorexic.

Sacred scripture is like a mirror in which we see God, although each in a different way.

Be observing constantly. Stay open-minded. Be eager to learn and improve.

You've never gone too far that God can't redeem you, restore you, forgive you, and give you a second chance.

Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.