It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it.

How many understand that Nature is the essential character of whatever is. It's something you'll find by looking not at, but in, always in. It's always inside the thing, and it makes the outside. And some day, when you get sufficiently proficient in understanding the use of the term, you can tell by the outside pretty much from what's inside.

It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth.

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

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

If capitalism is fair then unionism must be. If men and women have a right to capitalize their ideas and the resources of their country, then that implies the right of men and women to capitalize their labor.

'Think in simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole to its parts in simplest terms, getting back to first principles.