That's as good as money, sir. Those are I.O.U.s.

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.

If you're afraid of your own dreams, you're welcome here in mine.

I think in the bridal world you definitely have to be on your toes at all times.

Definitely people like Kanye, inspired me to work hard. He's somebody who I've seen put that grind in over the years.

I wouldn't really say I'm a jazz guy, which I'm not.

We only hear questions that we are able to answer.

It takes effort to promote what you do until it becomes habit.

I grew up in the South. I grew up in the days of legalized segregation. And, so, whether you called it legal racial segregation or you called it apartheid, it was the same injustice.

Tip the world over and everything loose falls into L.A.

If you can laugh at your mistakes, it's a good thing.

I'm not sure there's any number of Facebook likes that can replace a hug.