The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century.

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

Less is more only when more is too much.

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.