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

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.

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.

Money is a tool – it’s the means, not the end. Inspiration is the metric that dictates whether or not a project is a success.

You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.

All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind.

Justice remains the tool of a few powerful interests; legal interpretations will continue to be made to suit the convenience of the oppressor powers.

Goals are simply tools to focus your energy in positive directions, these can be changed as your priorities change, new one added, and others dropped.

Minimalism isn’t a poor lifestyle. It’s a tool to get rid of unnecessary stuff.

Voting is the most powerful nonviolent tool or instrument that we have in a democratic society. And we must use it.

Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.