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?

Design is the art of planning, and it is the art of making things possible.

If we humans are good at anything, it’s thinking we’ve got a terrific idea and going for it without acknowledging the potential consequences or our own ignorance.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics.

If your ideas are bigger than the town you're in, you've got to get out of there.

There is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.

Focus on your customers and make that restaurant synonymous to where you are in terms of area.

It's very easy to go down, so always live up. Incline yourself upward.

Just having an awareness of God's mercy and compassion for us is a great motivation for us to be merciful and compassionate to other people and to take steps toward encountering God.

When you save a girl, you save generations

My grandfather, a devout Christian, had the gift of healing.