Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.

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.

Enlightenment doesn't disconnect you from the world, rather it gives you a deep understanding of it.

I wasn't putting too much emphasis on it (the booing). I think that you have to put it behind you.

I've got a happy marriage, which is the most important singular thing.

I don't want you to praise me...Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather you would point out my defects, for that will teach me something.

The depth of our love can be measured by our efforts. We demonstrate our love when we take that extra step.

My life is really precious. I don't want to spend it watching ambient TV that just drifts through you. I've got better things to do.

I'm painfully aware of my surroundings at all times.

I'm going to continue to talk to the people, because I do believe that if they get to know you and what you are as a human being, they can more appreciate what you are as a performer.

To be right is dangerous, it has ever been the source of all intolerance.

By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.