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.

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

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

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title. - Virginia Woolf, from Jacob's Room Television is chewing gum for the eyes.