If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

I don't build a house without predicting the end of the present social order.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

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

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 Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.