Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?

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.

When our feet talk to us, we listen.

devotion, admiration and trust. No words really needed for such feelings. As all creatures know of theseunique colors in the rainbow of Love....

To have courage for whatever comes in life-everything lies in that.

Mum had a job fitting upholstery into cars, but, in the evenings, she worked as a seamstress.

The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.

I love not feeling this hydraulic pressure that you have to create this comic moment within every scene. You can just play it as it is.

to be black is to be very-hot.

Christ is no Moses, no exactor, no giver of laws, but a giver of grace, a Savior; he is infinite mercy and goodness, freely and bountifully given to us.

My world has changed, and so have I. I have learned to choose and I have learned to say goodbye.

It's really nice that the truth can finally come out.