The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.

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.

Less is more only when more is too much.

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.

We do not learn so much by our successes as we learn by failures - our own and others! Especially if we see the failures properly corrected.

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.