When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear

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.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom.

I'm all groan up in America.

Well, I don't go out much socially. I don't enjoy going out.

Those who are content have enough; those that complain, have too much.

My first dream as a child was to become a pilot. My second dream was to become an astronomer, and I pursued in parallel efforts and studies in these two areas.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!

The Great Commission to go into all the world is not only geographical, but must include every field, profession, discipline, sport, etc.

Knowledge is the key to making a difference.