Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry.

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. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

The sense of space within the reality of any building is a new concept wherever architecture is concerned. But it is essential ancient principle just the same and is not only necessary now but implied by the ideal of democracy itself.

When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear

Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.