"Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun."

"New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent."

"Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art."

"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you."

"Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it."

"The truth is more important than the facts."

"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings."

"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change."

"Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world."

"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."

"I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture."

"A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart."

"TV is chewing gum for the eyes."

"The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes."

"Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world."

"Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall."

"Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic."

"Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age."

"An idea is salvation by imagination."

"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization."

"A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it."

"Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground."

"God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see."

"All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable."

"Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes."

"Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now."

"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."

"The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it."

"Freedom is from within."

"Mechanization best serves mediocrity."

"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger."

"No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built."

"Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed."

"Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain."

"An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site."

"I feel coming on a strange disease - humility."

"Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind."

"The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty."

"Space is the breath of art."

"Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual."

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."

"The space within becomes the reality of the building."

"A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward."

"Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances."

"Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities."

"The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind."

"Television is chewing gum for the eyes."

"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."

"Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles."

"Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union."