“God is in the details.”

“I don’t want to be interesting. I want to be good.”

“Less is more.”

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

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

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

“It is better to be good than to be original.”

“True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure of us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.

“Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Let us lead them into the healthy world of primitive building methods, where there was meaning in every stroke of an axe, expression in every bite of chisel.”