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

If it sells, it’s art.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

One war only breeds another.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

You will find Goodness and Truth everywhere you go. If you have to choose, choose Truth. For that is closest to Earth. Keep close to the Earth, in that lies strength. Simplicity of heart is just as necessary for an architect as for a farmer or a minister if the architect is going to build great buildings.

Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

An idea is inevitably a coordination. It is a coming together of something that is separate or disorganized or incomplete. With an idea you begin to feel into the nature of that incompleteness.

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.

The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.

I will make such a wonderful India that all Americans will stand in line to get a visa for India.

Even though Prince wasn’t rapping and it was a whole different era, it shows how artists expressed themselves without saying too much, and that was the real beauty of the art.

I’d imagine my wedding as a fairy tale… huge, beautiful and white.

God honors a beautiful blend of gift and grit! He gives the gift, and He expects us to have the grit to practice and learn how to use it effectively.

That’s why we love football: it’s not about the money or about the hairstyle or the dancing. We want to see beautiful goals, great tackles, fair play, and all this stuff.

It’s never fun when we’re in the midst of the storm. But when we land someplace we know we never could have found on our own, it is a beautiful thing.

If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.