Imitation is always insult--not flattery.

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.

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.

The problem with Google is you have 360 degrees of omnidirectional information on a linear basis, but the algorithms for irony and ambiguity are not there. And those are the algorithms of wisdom.

Do not think about guys who have broken your heart six ways. It is mentally deranged to chase after heartbreak.

I think everyone is born creative but it can be suppressed by fear.

Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

Every night there's a moment that I just wanna go back to bed. I just get nervous. Then I run on (stage) and as soon as I grab the mic then I'm fine.

I believe that change keeps you young.

Good mathematicians see analogies. Great mathematicians see analogies between analogies.