Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.

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 thing I am most afraid of is love. When you say you love someone you are giving them license to hurt you.

at last he understood that he has always been forgiven and worthy of love, and that no one could take that from him, that not even he could take that from himself.

Mam said I was growing up. I felt that I was dying.

Perhaps elements like tenacity and humility combine to form a heroic compound.

What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

I love this country for several reasons, not the least of which is that I know I'm allowed to hate it if I want to.

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

Life is an endlessly creative experience, and we are shaping ourselves at every moment by every decision we make.

According to an analysis by the Tax Policy Center, Donald Trump's tax plan is going to increase the national debt by more than 50 percent over ten years.