We benefited from living with [Bernard] Leach, because suddenly all of his friends became our acquaintances.

We'll be potters, we'll be painters, we'll be textile designers, we'll be jewelers, we'll be a little this, a little of that. We were going to be the renaissance people [when we were young].

In fact, I believe to a certain extent a person today who starts with just clay, with no drawing and no painting and no figure drawing, still-life drawing, various things, they miss a great deal.

So I very quickly stopped almost all decoration. I was interested in the three-dimensional form of the pots, but my decoration was nonexistent.

Every pot is not going to be a masterpiece.

Alix [ MacKenzie] had stopped teaching because we had a child and she stayed home to take care of the baby, and I taught.

[Shoji] Hamada seldom drew an exact drawing of a pot that he was going to make.

It was a wonderful opportunity. And so for two and a half years we lived with [Bernard] Leach.

Bernard's [Leach] drawings delineated every little accent on the pot, every subtle curve and change of angle and proportion and all.

Bernard [Leach] was making pots which were duplicates of his drawing, and that was a difference of approach, which I think is quite critical to these two men [Leach and Shoji Hamada].

And as far as I know about Alix's [MacKenzie] work, I don't believe she ever did any sculptural work at all. It was always pottery.

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

It doesn't pay to trust a lettered man in the road, Brothers, their heads are full of other man's ideas.

I want to know how good at life I can be in a place where there are no distractions.

Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.

Who is an aam aadmi? AAP believes that the middle class is part of the aam aadmi, anyone who is tired of this corrupt system is aam aadmi.

Mehr als das Leben lieb' ich meine Freiheit. More than life, I cherish freedom.

The construction of the universe is certainly very much easier to explain than is that of the plant.

I just like music that I can relate to, something to listen to in my car.

Nothing puts peace in its proper perspective better than the loss of personal liberty first.

The greater success a man has made, the more he fears a climb down.