“The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.”

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

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.

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

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

The room within is the great fact about the building.

The mission of an architect is to help people understand how to make life more beautiful, the world a better one for living in, and to give reason, rhyme, and meaning to life.

The best friend of earth of man is the tree.

I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.

Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

Limitation is always insult–not flattery.

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.

It seems to me a cruelty beauty and tragedies are lovers.

Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

Everyone deserves to feel good about themselves, and if you don’t then start because everyone is beautiful.

Your lies were so beautiful that I miss them more than you.

Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.

At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.

If you don’t think about it, what could be more beautiful than now.