Good design means as little design as possible.

You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people.

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

My heart belongs to the details. I actually always found them to be more important than the big picture. Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality.

One of the most significant design principles is to omit the unimportant in order to emphasize the important.

Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour.

Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role.

Good design is long-lasting! It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated.

Things which are different in order simply to be different are seldom better, but that which is made to be better is almost always different.

Good design is thorough, down to the last detail.

People react positively when things are clear and understandable.

When you’re seventy-five, you are still going to be you.

It's hardly ever that I am hurt by something in only one dimension.

EVERY intention which does not assert itself by deeds is a vain intention, and the speech which expresses it is idle speech. It is action which proves life and establishes will

A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.

Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.

When you know people are really at peace with who they are and what they do, they collaborate and want to help you to improve.

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.

Have a hand in your own treatment. I have nothing but praise for our doctors, but I think they could help us better, and we can help them if we work together.

The trouble with all of us is we are where we shouldn't be.

I grew up on the streets of Baltimore, a city I love to this very day.