If I hadn't been a designer, I'd have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery in order to support myself.

The playful search for beauty.

I don't call myself an 'industrial designer,' because I'm other things. Industrial designers want to make novel things. Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.

When I met my designs in the market of a remote village in the West Indies, or in the airport restaurant in Zurich, I felt like the mother of many well-behaved children.

Everything I do is a direct creation of my hands, whether it is made in wood, plaster or clay.

I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind.

Beautiful things make people happy.

My designs are meant to attract the hand as well as the eye.

I think with my hands. I design things to be touched-not for a museum. A piece is ready when it has the shape of something to cherish.

If you think of beautiful things, you’re not sad.

When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds.

It isn't about knowing the most stories, child. It is about carrying the ones that are most important and passing them along.

The smaller fry disappears while the bigger one still rules in the business world and also in other areas like politics.

[Christians] are commanded to warn the nations of the world that they must repent and turn to God while there is yet time.

The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur in you would be involved with the realization that a civilization is not destroyed by wicked people

You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.

You can stay up all night and still not count all the ways to lose the people you love.

A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.

One woman is a pest and two women is a team, but three women or more is a coalition. If you can bring a lot of people together as a coalition, you can get a lot changed.

Even secular people can't really escape from the need to rest their ideas on some belief, some sort of commitment that is not scientific commitment.

When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.