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

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.

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.

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

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

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.

Freedom is from within.

"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.

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

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

The truth is more important than the facts.

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