“More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.”

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.

A true partner or friend is one who encourages you to look deep inside yourself for the beauty and love you’ve been seeking.

Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.

Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.

Unconditional love is all you have. You can’t overdose on love, you never can. It’s a beautiful thing.

As long as you find something beautiful, good, and true to believe in and abide by, you have the equivalent of God in your life.

One must labor for beauty as for bread.

Today is cruel. Tomorrow is crueller. And the day after tomorrow is beautiful.

The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way.