Hanging onto a bad buy will not redeem the purchase.

The living room should be a place where we feel totally at ease - temple of the soul.

The designer's job is to imagine the world not how it is, but how it should be.

If our homes should provide anything, they should provide a sense of who we are and how we got here, a sense of connection balanced by a sense of direction and progress.

Good design is probably 98% common sense. Above all, an object must function well and efficiently-and getting that part right requires a good deal of time and attention.

Furniture and food are ways that people define their attitude toward life. They'll buy better stuff if it's offered to them.

People whose talents are not exploited become disenchanted and disruptive.

Arguably the only goods people need these days are food and happiness.

I've never met a truly creative person who was happy and satisfied with life.

When you struggle hard and lose money, you're a hero. When you start making money you become a capitalist swine.

Pride begins when someone starts to assume that s/he is the custodian of all truths and attempts to be right in all circumstances, which is IMPOSSIBLE!

You can't make love without art.

There is no better investment of time and money than in the life of a child. They are the future.

A role model is an imperfect person, not a perfect person, because that's who we are as real people.

I am a light person. I think of myself with a shield, a protective shield around me. And I think of bad things bouncing off it. Boom, boom, boom, ba-boom, ba- boom!

I do my laundry on a weekly basis.

Hillary Clinton is apparently very happy about [Barack] Obama clamping down on your 2nd Amendment rights.

My family do not think I'm special - not one, one bit.

To paint nature you must be in it a long time.

I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.