Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.Sincerity is the greatest virtue of the mind.Determination is the greatest virtue of the will.Courage is the greatest virtue of the spirit.

That project has some challenges, … The good news is it has some of the only large contiguous spaces downtown.

Early in my career…I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility… I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I’ve never been sorry.

‘Think simple’ as my old master used to say – meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

“Think simple” as my old master used to say – meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

The room within is the great fact about the building.

True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park.

It helped us that they could both get to the rim, they were not one-dimensional at all. They also had to develop better court awareness to distribute the ball. We will really miss Katie next...

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

If it’s dead, the body’s till warm.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.

We didn’t do a very good job in the first half. We were very lax on defense and didn’t play with a whole lot of intensity. I thought we came back and did an excellent...

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

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

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.

Freedom is from within.

As we live and as we are, Simplicity – with a capital “S” – is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life...

Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.

It’s a question of disappearing into the background. We would suffer the loss of dilution.

Our forefathers were not only brave. I believe they were right. I believe that what they meant was that every man born had equal right to grow from scratch by way of his own power...

Meg McMullen had a really big second half for us. We need to have people step up like that and not have to rely on Katie and Lauren to carry the load every game. We’re...

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

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

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

An idea is salvation by imagination

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

We realize people need to live somewhere but we don’t want to put ourselves in a position where we have 28 houses per acre.

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

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.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

We averaged 43.5 points a game this year and they came up with 29 of those so it’s obvious how important they were. As the season wore on, we developed other options, but they were...

We should have a system of economics that is structure, that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our eyebrows from skyhooks economically, just as we are architecturally

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

If White County imposed big restrictions and fees, we wouldn’t fool with timber in White County when we can get timber [elsewhere] without any hassle.

The first weekend in March is usually the end of our busy season. But this year, with the way things are going, it may keep up a little longer.

Le génie est un péché contre la masse.

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

Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasions to change.

I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.

The inappropriate cannot be beautiful

The truth is more important than the facts.

We’ve been having some weekend public skates with anywhere from 300 to 400 skaters per session. It’s pretty crowded.

We want to serve that need.

How is he made? Oftentimes bitter, sometimes sweet, seldom even wide-awake, architectural criticism of “the modern” wholly lacks inspiration or any qualification because it lacks the appreciation that is love: the flame essential to profound...

The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a...

TV — chewing gum for the eyes.

The city has been incredibly capable of reinventing itself, with shorter and shorter cycles.

The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas

If it sells, it’s art.

We’re a nice team when all of us are moving.