Self fulfilling prophecies do exist in real life

Doctors bury their mistakes, Architects cover them with ivy

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.

Imitation is always insult--not flattery.

Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.

Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?

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.