Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

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.

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.

Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.

Touch with your heart more than with your hands.

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.

You get to a point where the kind of beautiful chaos can't really fuel your creative existence any longer because it's not stable, however amazing and exciting it may be.

I respect BMW for not interfering in these projects. They're just trying to support short films with their brand, which I think is great.

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.

You will become on the outside, what you believe on the inside.

I am an illusionist - that's why I create art.

If evangelism isn't an expression of love of neighbor, it isn't Christian evangelizing. And love of neighbor includes not only what I say to the neighbor but how I say that.

I'm a frustrated driver. I would love to be out on the track instead of them. I look at them with envy.

I'll perform all the way to the grave.