I've become much more interested in architecture than I've ever been.

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.

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.

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?

The minute I stopped trying to find the right girl, and started trying to become the right guy...the girl came.

The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other.

Prayer implies surrender to the will of the giver, demand preconceives a right to receive. Pray, my dear, and you shall receive.

You need a really solid foundation of friends and family to keep you where you need to be.

Since 1998, the Administration has begun to upgrade counterintelligence and security at U.S. weapons labs.

I do mostly British projects, and for family reasons and life reasons Britain's my home, where I have a lovely garden.

If you ask me, I'd like to become the first female president. That would be really cool. The first thing I would do is redecorate the White House, it doesn't look very cozy.

I was 21, when I heard the story that inspired this [thriller Allied], and I wasn't even a screenwriter then.

Only changes in mindsets can extend the frontiers of the possible.