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.

It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.

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.

I no longer hear the faint sound of my heart beat. Then I hear the sound of my fathers voice saying, come, be silent with me!

The churches are preaching miracles and not gospel of the kingdom.

Michelle [Obama] never fully took to the scrutiny. I mean, she's thrived as a first lady, but it's not her preference.

The greatest thing in life is health.

I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.

I had a little Richard and that black piano, oh that sweet Georgia Peach, and the boy form Tupelo.

Working with the Latin language is pretty powerful. Working with a language that is not spoken vernacularly is intense.

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

Don’t tell them what you’re going to do - that’s vision. Do what you are going to do – that’s culture.

There were creative-writin g teachers long before there were creative-writin g courses, and they were called and continue to be called editors.