Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.

Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture.

The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.

A vital difference between the professional man and a man of business is that money making to the professional man should, by virtue of his assumption, be incidental; to the businessman it is primary. Money has its limitations; while it may buy quantity, there is something beyond it and that is quality.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

Is there anything more anti-American than McCarthyism?

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.