A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its own form, and serve its own purpose!

In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem; he needs to be confident of his efficacy and worth.

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease, disaster, the lack, the fault, the flaw-the zero.

There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire, some hold only in their youth, and a few hold to the end of their days-the conviction that ideas matter . . . . That ideas matter means that knowledge matters, that truth matters, that one's mind matters . . .

A man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him.

and he said her name to fill the space of five years.