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

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.

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

When you begin your work, nothing exists. When it is finished it looks as if it just happened, spontaneously, effortlessly, convincingly. It looks as though it had been there all along.

I don't wanna have anything left in the tank.

No one checked to see if I had a place to live or food to eat, and at 14, I found myself basically on my own.

Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

Why would anybody not own a gun?

Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance.

If Israel is to please the Lord fully, they will live lives that are as distinctive among the nations as their Lord is different from pagan deities.

No temporary chaos is worth your sanity.

This college would probably have the same problem as the last one did." I frowned, "What's that?" "Homework.

Never generally means "at no point in time." The term comes from the words 'no' and 'ever', meaning that something is not ever going to happen. Sourced