The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry.

No house should ever be on any hill... It should be of the hill.

The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.

I voted for Stevenson as opposed to Eisenhower because I thought he would make a good president, but against my conscience because I thought that he was too good for the job.

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.