“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.”

“God is in the details.”

“A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.”

“We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.”

“Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.”

“Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age.”

“The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.”

“At the age of 45, most days in Tucson were spent feeling like I was on the summit of Mauna Kea, as I was exhibiting debilitating health symptoms that corresponded to what I saw at very high altitud...”

“The hour is only long thus, if you've waited.”

“The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”

“The world is larger and more beautiful than my little struggle.”

“It is hard to struggle for success but harder for survival.”

“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”