Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture.

San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful.

Prison house for the soul

I'm against war. Always have been, always will be. And everything connected with it, is anathema to me. I have never considered it necessary.

Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.

Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.

Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change