Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

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

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

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?

Imitation is always insult--not flattery.