TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.
To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.
I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.
Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.
God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.
