Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality.

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.

Do something with your one life, instead of following others. While just watching your one life pass you by.

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.

Christmas hath a beauty ... lovelier than the world can show.

I may be Irish, but I'm not stupid.

Well, I think we're the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world.

Whatever kind of introvert you are, some people will find you 'too much' in some ways and 'not enough' in others.

The upshot of Mr. Trump's economic policy positions under almost any scenario is that the U.S. economy will be more isolated and diminished.

There's such a feeling of satisfaction when something you imagined turned into something real.

I've always tried different stuff in the studio. I use rakes, spoons, cans... I'm a surround-sound type of guy.