An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.

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.

To test a man's character, give him power. Once people have power they will always reveal themselves.

Civilization is a movement - not a condition a voyage - not a harbour.

We learned that a product doesn't sell just because you're trying to do good in the world. You still have to have a healthy distribution, a good marketing strategy, and price the product properly.

My goodness, that wee ball's gone so high there'll be snow on it when it comes down.

People and their religions don't affect me.

It's really incumbent upon us as life's agents to extend life to another planet. I think that being a multi-planet species will significantly increase the richness and scope of the human experience.

The key to anything in boxing and life is sticking to it. Never give up.

I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive.

I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.

Humans sort of instinctively respond negatively to something that's not true.