To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.

Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy.

Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.

I think Miss Monroe as architecture is extremely good architecture, and she's a very natural actress, and a very good one.

As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital "S" - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a more complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means.