Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

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.

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.

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.

As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.

Nature itself, is the best medicine prescription, for our whole being.

A physical wound may heal, but a spiritual one may last for ever

Remember that the truth within yourself will always be greater than the truth found in these pages. These stories are here to guide us—to help us find that truth, not to tell us what it is.

I find a certain comfort, " confesses Marinus, "in humanity's helplessness.

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

New York is traditional New York, you know what I'm saying? It's the stomping ground of the hustlers and go-getters

Find a balance between head and heart.

We live as we dream - alone.

Even as regards Earth we are more committed to history than to geography, more committed to time than to space. History is endless. Place is limited.