Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.

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?

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

If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the architecture that we must have if this country is going to be beautiful.

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