“The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you’re an atheist, pretend how God would do it.”

I’ll bridge these hills with graceful arches

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

Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.

They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.

The longer that I live the more beautiful life becomes.

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.

What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.

When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.

Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.

Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.

Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.

Sometimes when I’m faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there’s a cook.