"It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis"

"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect"

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

"Every man is the architect of his own fortune"

"Every person is the architect of their own fortune"

"You are the architect of your own destiny; you are the master of your own fate; you are behind the steering wheel of your own life. There are no limitations to what you can do, have, or be except the limitations you place on yourself by your own thinking"

"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"

"Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny"

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

"An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome"

"He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery"