It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it.

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.

A day without your child is like a day without sunshine

Spending longer thinking about the problem before you dive in is likely to lead to higher levels of creativity in the final product.

If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.

I walked the streets of New York for two years begging for a job, and I couldn't get one.

Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles.

You really must stop acting Like a 20-year-old, gold plated In a midlife crisis You just graduated Happy 60th

I suppose I'm most influenced by any good, commercial writer. I learn from everyone.

You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also.

For a second, I'm afraid he's dying. I have to remind myself that I don't care.

The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.