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

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

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

"I don't know whether you are a saint or a fool" said my lawyer. I replied "Is there a difference?"

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.