No house should ever be on any hill... It should be of the hill.

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 is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.

Home is where your books are.

Light is what we are called to preach. Our lord and saviour called himself light of the world.

The strong smells I remember are all floral. There's nothing like a farm rose to take you back to the mountains and the meadows. I'm a mountain girl, a meadow girl, so I feel very close to that.

I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.

We all carry our mothers inside us.

A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would run.

People's lives are forever controlled by two emotions: fear and greed.

The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only per-son better you should be, this is who you are now.