Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.

When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.

It's easier to make changes with a pencil than a wrecking bar.

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

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.