Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.

Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.

I do not believe in adding enrichment merely for the sake of enrichment. Unless it adds clearness to the enunciation of the theme, it is undesirable, for it is very little understood.

Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.