Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality.

The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.

Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly.

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

Imitate nothing except principle.

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

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.