The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.

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.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

Better to see widely than to see too closely and allow some feature of place or situation to catch you unawares. Do you understand?

When a man says it's a silly childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at.

So the single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind.

Back then they had Elvis and they thought Elvis was so risqué. So everyone has their perception to what innocence is.

If you think you are free, there is no escape possible.

Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Do not try to convert others to your point of view, except by holding it and living accordingly.

I like simple writing. I'd rather read Hemingway than Burroughs.