Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly.

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.

True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park. At its best it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented

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

The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.

I'm against war. Always have been, always will be. And everything connected with it, is anathema to me. I have never considered it necessary.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.