Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

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.

Actions speak louder than words, in fact. When we don't take action, we foster the mistaken reality of our old identity.

It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.

The individual succumbs but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.

Audacity more audacity always audacity.

Neither woman nor man lives by work or love alone.... The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that.

Your life only gets better when you get better, and you can improve yourself without limit. Learn something new every day.

Shakespeare again. Once you let him into your head, he takes up tenancy and will not leave.

If you want to be at peace, you have to be clear about your intetion and - moment by moment - in alignment with your intention

A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress.

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.