The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful.

No house should ever be on any hill... It should be of the hill.

It's easier to make changes with a pencil than a wrecking bar.

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.