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

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.

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.

The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.

Everyone smiles in the same language.

There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.

I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.

She’s kind of a walking poem, she’s this perfect beauty but at the same time very deep, very smart.

Tokyo by night? Beautiful. Tokyo by Night Sight? Insane!