Design isn't just about making things beautiful; it's also about making things work beautifully.

You need to be uncomfortable and apprehensive: True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices. The objective is not to eliminate risk but to increase the odds of success.

Business people don't need to understand designers better. They need to be designers.

When it comes to innovation, business has much to learn from design. The philosophy in design shops is, 'try it, prototype it, and improve it'.

The two most fundamental strategic choices are deciding where to play and how to win.

I love that Toronto is demonstrating that a big, highly diverse, multicultural city can actually work and work well, if its residents have the attitude of Torontonians.

Love is a drug for me and I am addicted to it.

I will never forget the feeling of walking into my home, a place that while drifting helpless in the middle of the Indian Ocean I wondered if I would ever see again.

We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.

Actually it seems to me that one can hardly say anything either bad enough or good enough about life.

There are the most fantastic, beautiful things and people out there. It’s up to you to find them.

When I tell people I'm going to the Olympics, they're like: 'What do you do, track and field? Pole vault? Are you a volleyball player?' No one ever guesses tae kwon do.

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it

Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either

We gained a great deal of prestige, but not much money. We liked to work so much we couldn't hide it and the club owners paid us accordingly.

There's no need there to sit with the filmmaker for 11 years to develop the script, or go round the world raising money.