You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.

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.

Your heart doesn't care about being easy. Your heart only cares about what's true for you.

A hug is a priceless gift of love and kindness.

Fortune follows those who can create ideas by connecting old ones. Strong personal brands are created when connection and creation connect.

I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion.

Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless.

She was seriously staring. Which was what you did when you got a gander at a man who is hung like a Louisville Slugger.

No organization is going to be successful unless it places a high value on its employees and engages them in the work that it's doing.

I try to be as efficient as possible.

Globalisation thus implies that sovereignty...needs to become weaker.

Every moment, the sunlight is totally empty and totally full.