I think it's ultimately inhuman to only see things for their functionality. We want things to be more than that. The desire for beauty is something that's in us, and it's not trivial.

Hobbies are for people that don't like what they're doing.

To be a good designer, you would need to have deep and far-reaching interests outside of the profession.

Complaining is silly. Either act or forget.

You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design.

Ensure it feels like it's made by humans, for humans.

Yes, design can make you happy.

I have done enough bullshit lately, I just have to make time for something better. Something good.

I don't think there is a particular responsibility on designers that is not on other professions... I think there's a responsibility for all of us to engage on all levels.

I discovered that I never really used Helvetica but I like to look at it. I like the VW beetle, too, although I've never driven one.

Having guts always works out for me.

Achievement is no hocus-pocus. It's focus, focus!

Maturity is when you can understand someone's silences and the pauses between those silences...

A performance must capture or communicate with the mood and feelings of that very moment.

The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work.

We are spiritual beings whether we want to admit it or not, and inherent in our DNA is a design to return us home - home to our true essence, our greatest self, our limitless self.

Each person has a literature inside them.

When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.

People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.

In our business, the windows of opportunity open and close with dazzling rapidity...I constantly have to remind people to seize the moment.

The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act would expand research on embryonic stem cells by increasing the number of lines stem cells that would be eligible for federally funded research.