When I put my pen to a blank sheet, black isn’t added but rather the white sheet is deprived of light. [] Thus I also grasped that the empty spaces are the most important aspect of a typeface.

Typography must be as beautiful as a forest, not like the concrete jungle of the tenements It gives distance between the trees, the room to breathe and allow for life.

The material of typography is the black, and it is the designer’s task with the help of this black to capture space, to create harmonious whites inside the letters as well as between them.

Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.

The whole point with type is for you not to be aware it is there. If you remember the shape of a spoon with which you just ate some soup, then the spoon had a poor shape.

I am sure in some years from now you will see new posters with just white space and four lines in Garamond.

The Spirit of Truth reveals all truth.

Always be humble and gentle with one another.

I was young--so young--naive, isolated in a small world of safety and comfort too soon shattered by a phone call.

The trouble with Lucious, " he said, putting his feet up on the desk after this cousin has gone, " is that he thinks politics is a fight for justice. Politics is a profession.

And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has never seen before. This was an inspiring body of literature to read.

I can't remember when I wasn't an animal rights activist.

Why is life speeded up so? Why are things so terribly, unbearably precious that you can't enjoy them but can only wait breathless in dread of their going?

The failure to invest in civil justice is directly related to the increase in criminal disorder. The more people feel there is injustice the more it becomes part of their psyche.

A President is impeachable if he attempts to subvert the Constitution.

Whoever is across the net, I want to win. Whoever that person is, that's the day I want to win.