We become different people and we adapt to our environments, but that doesn't have anything to do with being creative.

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?

I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.....

I wouldn’t be caught dead sacrificing myself for this country.

There's a bit of kitten in all of us.

Sometimes being indifferent solves everything.

Do not ever get agitated by provoking thoughts and actions. Always keep your calm. This will shame the alien.

You can't beat a good sonnet, and you can write a sonnet without being married to the damned thing.

Comedy comes from a place of hurt. Charlie Chaplin was starving and broke in London, and that's where he got his character 'the tramp' from. It's a bad situation that he transformed into comedic one.

You never know how diverse your career can be. I think it's wonderful. My life has always been the next page, not the last page.

I don't let myself get worn out. I always listen to my body and take care of it if I'm run-down.