No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.

The sense of space within the reality of any building is a new concept wherever architecture is concerned. But it is essential ancient principle just the same and is not only necessary now but implied by the ideal of democracy itself.

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

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

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

The truth is more important than the facts.

More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.