A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.

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

Less is more only when more is too much.