The living room should be a place where we feel totally at ease - temple of the soul.

The designer's job is to imagine the world not how it is, but how it should be.

If our homes should provide anything, they should provide a sense of who we are and how we got here, a sense of connection balanced by a sense of direction and progress.

Good design is probably 98% common sense. Above all, an object must function well and efficiently-and getting that part right requires a good deal of time and attention.

Furniture and food are ways that people define their attitude toward life. They'll buy better stuff if it's offered to them.

Hanging onto a bad buy will not redeem the purchase.

People whose talents are not exploited become disenchanted and disruptive.

Arguably the only goods people need these days are food and happiness.

I've never met a truly creative person who was happy and satisfied with life.

When you struggle hard and lose money, you're a hero. When you start making money you become a capitalist swine.

I was willing to yield to nostalgia, that melancholy residue of desire.

Nothing is ever enough.

I always have eaten really healthy, but I'm not a diet freak.

The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.

There is more that meets the eye, I see the soul that is inside.

It breaks towards the center of the earth when it is above the hole.

From my experience, the only thing you can do is take what's written on the page and try, through your own curiosity and investigation, to make it your own and honor what the original intent was.

I stand for 8-10 hours a day. Why is standing limited to four hours?

It's not about me, it's about the grandkids. That's what a lot of people don't understand about what Herman is up to.

Life is short...eat desert first!