A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind

It was kind of a lackluster game. We did what we needed to do to win.

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

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

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

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain...

Space is the breath of art.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

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

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. (1939)

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

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

An expert is a man who has stopped thinking – he knows!

Something bad happened. It doesn’t have anything to do with what they were doing.

I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.

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

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

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

If you tilt the whole country sideways, Los Angeles is the place where everything loose will fall.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

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.