An expert is a man who has stopped thinking - he knows!

The truth is more important than the facts

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind

An idea is salvation by imagination

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism . . . but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities

I wouldn't mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anarchronism, almost the equivalent of smoking

Television is bubble-gum for the mind

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger"

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change"

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization

Mechanization best serves mediocrity

Classicism is a mask and does not reflect transition. How can such a static expression allow interpretation of human life as we know it? A fire house should not resemble a French Chateau, a bank a Greek temple and a university a Gothic Cathedral. All of the ism are imposition on life itself by way of previous education.

Less is only more where more is no good

Every great architect is -- necessarily -- a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age

The architect must be a prophet . . . a prophet in the true sense of the term . . . if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site

A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines

A free America, democratic in the sense that our forefathers intended it to be, means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes

Move the chair" - Wright's response to a client who phoned him to complain of rain leaking through the roof of the house onto the dining table.

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed. . .a race for rent