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

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.

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.

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

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.