When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture of music that inspired Bach and Beethoven, the architecture of painting that is inspiring Picasso as it inspired Velasquez, that it is the architecture of life itself that is the inspiration of the great poets and philosophers.

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

"I don't know whether you are a saint or a fool" said my lawyer. I replied "Is there a difference?"

What I like best about San Francisco is San Francisco.

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

Imitate nothing except principle.

How many understand that Nature is the essential character of whatever is. It's something you'll find by looking not at, but in, always in. It's always inside the thing, and it makes the outside. And some day, when you get sufficiently proficient in understanding the use of the term, you can tell by the outside pretty much from what's inside.