I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

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.

A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.

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.

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.