You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

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.

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.

Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.

Raising children is like baking cookies at high altitudes. The recipe doesn’t work. You must open the oven door and keep checking on the cookies.

Maybe the best things are those that take the most work, you know? Maybe how you get somewhere can be at least as important as where you're going.

I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.

The people in Tacloban have great dignity and deserve better than what they have gotten

Four billion years ago the planet Earth was molten rock; now it sings opera!

Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.

Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.

It [Dr Phil] was great. We had such a good time. Never a dull moment on set, considering the 18 kids. It never got boring.

Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.