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

One war only breeds another.

The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.

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

From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.

Our forefathers were not only brave. I believe they were right. I believe that what they meant was that every man born had equal right to grow from scratch by way of his own power unhindered to the highest expression of himself possible to him.

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.