The fact that I can make a living and support three kids and my wife doing what I love to do. . . who does that? That's golden. It's a very privileged thing.
The room within is the great fact about the building.
The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.
We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
We have converted our wounds into a type of relationship currency that we use in order to control situations and people.
Maybe the first time that you know you really care about something is when you think about it not being there,and when you know-you really know-that the emptinessis as much as inside you as outside you. For it falls out,that what we have we prize not to the worth whiles we enjoy it;but being lacked and lost,why,then we rack the value,then we find the virtue that possesion would not show us while it was ours. That's when I knew for the first time that I really did love my sister.
First we shape our tools, thereafter they shape us
Those who don't heed the warnings don't live to admit they were stupid not to do so.