All architecture, which does not express serenity, fails in its spiritual mission. Thus, it has been a mistake to abandon the shelter of walls for the inclemency of large areas of glass.

I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

Don't ask me about this building or that one, don't look at what I do, see what I see.

The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.

Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy

Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all.

The quietness here had an agreement with dust

There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and activity.

In God we trust. All others [must] have data. - Bernard Fisher

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

Faith is a curious thing. It must be renewed; it has its own spring.

Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!

All pity choked with custom of fell deeds.

To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.