They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.

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.

Employment leaves you distracted

Learning never ends, we may stop learning but life will keep teaching us something on each and every stage.

It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company.

Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.

Every insecure soul has a government of their own and a paid judge in their court room.

I'm going to treat my religion, which is Christian, with great respect and care.

My dad's cool with that kind of stuff. He always wanted me to do my best. I'm quite dyslexic in school. My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own. My parents never really lecture me.

What you understand, you know; and what you know, you don't forget.

What could be more physical than what you eat, where you live, and who you live with? These are all very physical issues.

There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England.