The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.

Self fulfilling prophecies do exist in real life

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.

How many understand that Nature is the essential character of whatever is. It's something you'll find by looking not at, but in, always in. It's always inside the thing, and it makes the outside. And some day, when you get sufficiently proficient in understanding the use of the term, you can tell by the outside pretty much from what's inside.

Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination.