Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.

Our forefathers were not only brave. I believe they were right. I believe that what they meant was that every man born had equal right to grow from scratch by way of his own power unhindered to the highest expression of himself possible to him.

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.

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us, how long are we going to last?