All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.

We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.

Such professions as the soldier and the lawyer ... give ample opportunity for crimes but not much for mere illusions. ... If you have lost a battle you cannot believe you have won it; if your client is hanged you cannot pretend that you have gotten him off.

There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.

Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.