Confusion comes from trying to amalgamate several conflicting ideas.

The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence.

To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.

Function influence but does not dictate form

I wanted to clear up the slum of legs… I wanted to make the chair all one thing again.

What you newspaper and magazine writers, who work in rabbit time, don't understand is that the practice of architecture has to be measured in elephant time.

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room a room in a house a house in an environment an environment in a city plan.

I was excited to do something, even if I didn't know what it was. I think you need that feeling—that excitement, that fire—to make your dreams a reality. (p.59)

Each drop that fell, had a story to tell.each smile that curved, said a million words.(Poem: Our Existence, Book: Ginger and Honey)

A dog is grateful for what is, which I am finding to be the soundest kind of wisdom and very good theology.

To overcome fear, act as if it were impossible to fail, and it shall be.

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.

The U.S. is, to a very unusual extent, a business-run society.

Maid Marion, who said to Robin Hood, I will not live in a house with a Little John. Never got a dinner!

So much easier to aim for the smallest possible audience, not the largest, to build long-term value among a trusted, delighted tribe, to create work that matters and stands the test of time.

I needed to find out what my goals were and what my mission was. After some quiet time and just seeking the Lord, He brought some people to the table that understood where I was trying to go.

To think well is to serve God in the interior court.