Don't try to be original; just try to be good.

Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

Design is everything. Everything!

Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting.

The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.

Everything is design. Everything!

You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.

I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism... It's part of that asceticism.

The reason I always insisted on signing my work was not to be subordinate to anyone.

Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.

The most beautiful birds do not know how beautiful they are until they see their reflection in water.

Writing isn't only about a completed piece of work.It’s about the writer you’re becoming while creating

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.

Extract and expel implicit biases from your work life. Don't taint our visitors with your bias and views. Allow them to form their own conclusions where it's developmentally appropriate.

Where love could walk with banish'd Hope no more.

By the Angel, it just crushed Sophocles," noted Will. "Has no one respect for the classics these days?

It's one of the curses of designing that when you look at anything, you're constantly thinking, Why? Why - why was it designed like that, and not like this?

True leadership is measured by what happens after you die.

Something that could bring you wealth and fame could also be your end, your undoing.

The Eucharist becomes a microcosmic moment of belief and power in which we say we believe in the real presence of God in Jesus, in this bread, and in this wine.