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.

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

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

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy.

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.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.