Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.

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.

Wherever you put the mind, the body will follow.

If you get a wrinkle, I don't feel that's indicative of your losing ground. That's ridiculous.

The first thing, the main thing, about how I work is I need to understand the character.

Most people in the world have seen more of me on-screen than my kids have.

When I'm in London, I love to visit Kensington gardens and just sit in the park and read a good book.

Good economics is good politics.

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.

Three things I never lends - my 'oss, my wife, and my name.

Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.

Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.