You have to go wholeheartedly into anything to achieve anything worth having.

More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.

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

Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

Space is the breath of art.

Less is only more where more is no good.

A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.

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

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

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

It is far better to grasp the universe as it is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

We are, each of us, a multitude. Within us is a little universe.

Don't judge everyone else by your own limited experience.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.