Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

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.

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.

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.