You don't build for the way people live, but for the way they should live. I don't write about people as they are, but as they could be and should be.

There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.

you are never called upon to prove a negative. that's a law of logic.

I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.

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!