"I don't know whether you are a saint or a fool" said my lawyer. I replied "Is there a difference?"

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

Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

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

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

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.