All I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense account

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

The sense of space within the reality of any building is a new concept wherever architecture is concerned. But it is essential ancient principle just the same and is not only necessary now but implied by the ideal of democracy itself.

Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

A man with a machine may murder or enslave millions, whereas it used to take at least thousands to murder millions. And the man behind the machine has nothing on his conscience.