I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention.

When I was young, all we ever heard about was functionalism, functionalism, functionalism. It’s not enough. Design should also be sensual and exciting.

My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood.

A chair must be really important as an object, because my mother always told me to offer my chair to a lady

Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.

Be patient, calm, compassionate. Know that existence is fleeting.

If you think you're meeting your destiny on the other side of a door you may not be interested in its design.

I try and be as stupid as possible regarding my profession, which means I try to look at as few design magazines as possible.

Science is great for us. But for someone who sees the humans for more than one million years, science is just a one instant like a baby trying to talk.

Only the dead remember the truth.

Popularity and adulation are far more dangerous for the Christian than persecution. It is easy when all goes smoothly to lose our sense of balance and perspective.

That was the trouble with people in general: they were surprisingly unrealistic in their expectations.

Perspective is what allows us to step back and see the entire forest instead of just the same old tree we keep running into again and again.

Too many athletes do not admit their weaknesses.

Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.

Though God take the sunne out of the Heaven, yet we must have patience.

It's great to have an enemy. Sharpens your senses.

It is the best part of the night. The classic interactive lines are 'Where are you from? What do you do for a living?' I almost always get something interesting.