I kind of cherish at least the idea of Midwestern candor and openness. But I couldn't live there.

Ive always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.

I had it drummed into me from an early age that personalizing everything was not a good thing. Besides, I don't think that kind of commodity-driven system makes for the most productive architecture.

I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

I'm backing down now. I really do love you. That's why I'm doing this.

But I discovered that people like me -- they do, you know, if you like them -- and then it was all right.

Fear Less Dominate More

To move forth and grab your destiny is admirable. To shape your own future with the strength in your fist is beyond that.

I am created to know, love, and served my Creator.

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.

Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.

Shower the people you love with love.

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.