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

"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."

"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."

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

"Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country."

"Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes."

"Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment."

"He who conquers his inner doubts has already won half the war. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."