Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.

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.

When our sensitivity to feel pain decreases, so does our sensitivity to feel joy with it.

Nobody ever stays the same after someone they know tries to kill themselves…

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

I can't do negative, needy, or narcissistic anymore. Oh wait, I can still do the last one, aw nuts.

I felt I came back rather quickly from being ill and didn't give myself the time to reflect.

Never globalize a problem if it can possibly be dealt with locally.

By 1975 sexual feeling and marriage will have nothing to do with each other.

Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.

If you plan to miss this movie, better miss it quickly; I doubt if it'll be around to miss for long.

Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be