Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

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.

You see Jesus wrecked my life

Perhaps the only way to love is to bury yourself so deeply in it that you avoid its very suffering.

I've been tiny since I was four, and I eat whatever I want.

It's important to me that a man is good at taking care of people.

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

The problem in the church today is not the profession of faith, but it's possession.

What you are comes to you.

The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make.

I think major reorganisation is not something the government's about to do.

Overthinking is often a product of underdoing.