The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now every opportunity to found the natural democratic state in these United States of America by way of natural economic order and a natural, or organic, architecture.

The baby boomers are out there, they've had a lot of good years of earnings, they've inherited wealth. They are buying trophy homes and will be for years. We are one of those places people dream of. They come here to buy a piece of that dream.

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth

As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital "S" - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a more complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means.

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.

I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.

We do not learn so much by our successes as we learn by failures - our own and others! Especially if we see the failures properly corrected.