Doctors bury their mistakes, Architects cover them with ivy

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.

With which stars do they go on speaking, the rivers that never reach the sea?

Don't express your ideas too clearly. Most people think little of what they understand, and venerate what they do not.

I think there are a lot of things that soccer does in the communities that transcend the soccer field.

It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening.

I'm a pretty convenient foil for a lot of people.

Stem cells have the potential to be used to treat and better understand some of the world's most deadly and disabling diseases.

But now the world, he thought, had taken them. He knew that this could suddenly happen. One day you just woke up, and there was somewhere that you needed to be.

I've always believed that what can make a domestic setting truly home is the infusion of a cultural dimension.

My father didn't know George W. Bush from Adam.

Let me not be so vain to think that I'm the sole author of my victories and a victim of my defeats.