"The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty."

"Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles."

"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."

"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."

"Form follows function-that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union."

"Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him."

"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough."

"As we grow olda€|the beauty steals inward."

"Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful."

"The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth."

"To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am."