Any excuse to get away from the computer screen is welcome.

Hobbies are for people that don't like what they're doing.

To be a good designer, you would need to have deep and far-reaching interests outside of the profession.

Complaining is silly. Either act or forget.

You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design.

I think it's ultimately inhuman to only see things for their functionality. We want things to be more than that. The desire for beauty is something that's in us, and it's not trivial.

Ensure it feels like it's made by humans, for humans.

Yes, design can make you happy.

I have done enough bullshit lately, I just have to make time for something better. Something good.

I don't think there is a particular responsibility on designers that is not on other professions... I think there's a responsibility for all of us to engage on all levels.

I discovered that I never really used Helvetica but I like to look at it. I like the VW beetle, too, although I've never driven one.

...if charity begins at home, empire begins in other men's homes.

I didn't say I can change the whole world with all it entirety alone. But I can strike on a lot of things and cause a rift, and bring so many things together.

Positive vibrations and a genuine smile on your lips can heal the most distraught soul.

I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.

...the very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would take me?

If you are divided from your body, then you are divided from the body of the world.

Health, happiness and success depend upon the fighting spirit of each person. The big thing is not what happens to us in life, but what we do about what happens to us.

The name of the Slough was Despond.

Once again, the 90/10 rule of money applies - 10% of the borrowers in the world use debt to get richer - 90% use debt to get poorer.

I mean, in general, the danger is from Oriental faiths and Islam.