An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

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

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

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

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

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

Die Wahrheit wird nicht im Zorn gesprochen. Die Wahrheit, wenn sie denn gesprochen wird, wird im Geist der Liebe gesprochen.

Our reality is colored by our vibration and belief systems. In other words, the experiences we have in the world with other people are dictated by the energy we bring with us wherever we go.

Never ever let a stupid criticise you. And as we already know, everyone is stupid.

I don't need much coaxing.

I wish I had a better range, but I really have a super-limited one. Barely a tenor, dips into baritone - that's about it.

Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.

It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.

I closed my eyes, thinking, Let me love you, Hardy, just let me.

Going in one more round when you don't think you can - that's what makes all the difference in your life.

Hurry and fear will instantly cut your connect with the universal mind.