“Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.”

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

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.

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

Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.

It’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn’t mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel.

Our very lives are dependent, for sustenance, on the sweat and sacrifice of the campesinos. Children of farm workers should be as proud of their parents’ professions as other children are of theirs.

Every time we sit at a table at night or in the morning to enjoy the fruits and grain and vegetables from our good earth, remember that they come from the work of men and women and children who have been exploited for generations.

But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.