Man's Chief purpose is the creation and preservation of values; that is what gives meaning to our civilization, and the participation in this is what gives significance, ultimately, to the individual human life.

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

The self holds both a hell and a heaven.

Organic planning does not begin with a preconceived goal; it moves from need to need, from opportunity to opportunity, in a series of adaptations that themselves become increasingly coherent and purposeful, so that they generate a complex final design, hardly less unified than a pre-formed geometric pattern.

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.