Architecture is essentially Human; it is the Human spirit manifesting itself. For when a Man builds, there, you've got him; you know exactly what, who and how that Man is.

A man with a machine may murder or enslave millions, whereas it used to take at least thousands to murder millions. And the man behind the machine has nothing on his conscience.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

I'll bridge these hills with graceful arches

We should have a system of economics that is structure that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our eyebrows from skyhooks economically, just as we are architecturally.

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