Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.

Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.

Hollywood is like a really sad, grown up version of high school where people get labeled as 'cool,' 'not cool,' 'jock,' 'bombshell,' 'quirky'... it's like a caste system. You're either in, or you're out.

My mom and grandmother were actresses, and I knew I was going to do this since I was super young. I would put on shows at my grandparents' house and sing 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' in the living room. I was in drama club and chorus, and I knew every word to 'Grease.'

I was raised vegan. My mom would always make quinoa with squash and kale, hippie stuff like that. Now I eat meat, but I try to be conscious about where it's coming from.

For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.

When I turned 11, my dad decorated a room at the Standard hotel in Los Angeles in a '60s, Austin Powers style. There was human bowling: You run inside a giant inflatable ball and try to knock down pins. To this day, adults say it was one of the craziest parties they've ever been to.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

Space is the breath of art.

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

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

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.

A free America... 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.

Freedom is from within.

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.

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.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

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

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.

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

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

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

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

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

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 truth is more important than the facts.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

The space within becomes the reality of the building.