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.

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

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

On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative patter. Design was recreation! ...The virtue of all this lay in the awakening of the childmind to rhythmic structure in Nature - giving the child a sense of innate cause-and-effect otherwise far beyond child-comprehension.

Doctors bury their mistakes, Architects cover them with ivy

Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change

The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it.