"God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has been said often 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. If we wish to know the truth concerning anything, we'll find it in the nature of that thing."
"Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy."
"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization."
"Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now."
"Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world."
"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change."
"If it keeps us, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger."
"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."
"The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes."
"Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic."
"The inappropriate cannot be beautiful."
"The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes."
"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."
"An idea is salvation by imagination."
"Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union."
"The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind."
"Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions."
"The truth is more important than the facts."
"Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity."
"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger."
"Architecture is the triumph of Human Imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word 'order.'"
"Classicism is a mask and does not reflect transition. How can such a static expression allow interpretation of human life as we know it? A fire house should not resemble a French Chateau, a bank a Greek temple and a university a Gothic Cathedral. All of the -isms are imposition on life itself by way of previous education."
"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."
"Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall."
"A free America, democratic in the sense that our forefathers intended it to be, 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."