Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.

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

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

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

Science can give us only the tools in the box, these mechanical miracles that it has already given us. But of what use to us are miraculous tools until we have mastered the humane, cultural use of them? We do not want to live in a world where the machine has mastered the man; we want to live in a world where man has mastered the machine.

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.