“The measure of a man’s culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.”

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

Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.

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

I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.

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

The truth is more important than the facts.

A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.

We’re a nation hungry for more joy: Because we’re starving from a lack of gratitude.

We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.

What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.

I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend’s prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief.