A vital difference between the professional man and a man of business is that money making to the professional man should, by virtue of his assumption, be incidental; to the businessman it is primary. Money has its limitations; while it may buy quantity, there is something beyond it and that is quality.

A civilization is only a way of life. A culture is the way of making that way of life beautiful. So culture is your office here in America, and as no stream can rise higher than its source, so you can give no more or better to architecture than you are. So why not go to work on yourselves, to make yourselves, in quality, what you would have your buildings be?

Imitate nothing except principle.

I think Miss Monroe as architecture is extremely good architecture, and she's a very natural actress, and a very good one.

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.