Be culturally literate, because if you don't have any understanding of the world you live in and the culture you live in, you're not going to express anything to anybody else.

It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.

It took me a few seconds to draw it, but it took me 34 years to learn how to draw it in a few seconds.

The best way to accomplish serious design ... is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job.

Words have meaning, type has spirit.

The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be

The job of the designer is to make things understandable, usable, accessible, enjoyable... important to a public, that involves the public.

The work needs to get out of your head and on to the table, and it needs to be done from the heart.

If I get up every day with the optimism that I have the capacity for growth, then that’s success for me.

Your name is Windows. Why are you a flag?

Design is the art of planning, and it is the art of making things possible.

Look at you. Riding the gravy train with biscuit wheels.

On trade, our hypocrisy is at its most appalling. Trade reform isn't about charity, it's about justice, and this campaign, Trade Justice is an unstoppable idea.

Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.

Revenge produces nothing in the end. Even if you hate someone enough to kill them, you won't be saved from it. Always face forward. Walk down the path that has light.

I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.

No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.

I'm convinced that Sanford and Son shows middle-class America a lot of what they need to know.

We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite.

I'm as happy as I can be-but I have been happier.

The biggest questions that always have perplexed me are "Where do I come from?" and "Where am I going?"