A civilization is only a way of life. A culture is the way of making that way of life beautiful. So culture is your office here in America, and as no stream can rise higher than its source, so you can give no more or better to architecture than you are. So why not go to work on yourselves, to make yourselves, in quality, what you would have your buildings be?

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

We should have a system of economics that is structure that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our eyebrows from skyhooks economically, just as we are architecturally.

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

Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.

Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.