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.

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.

The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real.

Quite the most Christian thing that has happened in my lifetime is the Welfare State.

The scum of the earth... but what fine soldiers we have made them.

My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she can't.

I never did think I had brain damage.

Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists.

I'm vulnerable most when I'm in love.

Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.

I'm still a big kid - I make mistakes all time.

He may be taller, but I'm going to show that I'm bigger than him.