My ideal office wouldn't have a chair. You would do two things there: stand up or lie down. These are the body's most natural positions.

When design springs from an understanding of the people who are going to use a product, you begin to see forms that you would never have imagined.

The best way to know what people want is not by asking them, but by understanding them.

Why would you design something if it didn't improve the human condition?

It looks like a galosh with electronics in it.

Today the telephone takes precedence over everything. It reaches a point of terrorism, particularly at dinnertime.

The less there is of a phone, the more I like it.

Stop being self-conscious when you write.You are the expert about the world you are creating, no one else. So be bold and write on.

A friend won't always be there, at times you are on your own, but alone you still may find light.

Enough about me. What do you think about me?

underneath all that denial, you're someone who's deeply, deeply nice.

I'm interested in what actors reveal about themselves through the structure of the character.

All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

The diiference is that in the private sector you work for yourself, and as Prime Minister I work for every single Haitian - inside Haiti and outside - and for all those who love Haiti as well.

Hope, for the Christian, is not wishful thinking or mere blind optimism. It is a mode of knowing, a mode within which new things are possible, options are not shut down, new creation can happen.

What's perfect now, might not be so 10 years hence. Whatever we're basing our design ideas on is not what we remember in the past. It's something that kind of folds in on itself.

The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean.