The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now every opportunity to found the natural democratic state in these United States of America by way of natural economic order and a natural, or organic, architecture.

We've been fighting from the beginning for organic architecture. That is, architecture where the whole is to the part as the part is to the whole, and where the nature of materials, the nature of the purpose, the nature of the entire performance becomes a necessity-architecture of democracy.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

Imitation is always insult--not flattery.