Each material has its own message.

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.

We all know pain, ’ Nate said. ‘It becomes a part of us… But it doesn't define us.

Never surrender opportunity to security.

Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.

I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.

Everything begins with a thought, and thoughts are turned into plans, and plans into reality.

A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist.

You're offering a great service. People are tuning in. So continue to find great people, continue to do what you're doing. And do it better than your rivals. I know that's easier said than done.

This guy [Steve Lerner] is pure, 100% anti-capitalist and what he wants is what Cloward-Piven has basically said: Just overwhelm the system. It's sort of a derivative of Cloward-Piven.