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.

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.

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

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.

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.

You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.

Changes at any level within an organization (individual, team or organization) or across business ecosystem require intent.

Prayer without gratitude is more like complaining.

We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.

The larger the price tag, the more you have to adopt what I call the postmodern management approach. What I mean by that is that you have to use everything when you make a decision.

In order to improve your game you must study the endgame before everything else.

The fork is your most powerful tool to change your health and the planet; food is the most powerful medicine to heal chronic illness.

The extent of my personal BMX adventures were all [on] dirt tracks. But just the aesthetic of it that early-to-mid-'80s BMX is something that's just part of me.

I paint in oils, I paint in acrylics. I paint figurative and landscape portraits. It's all in my own kind of style. I'm self-taught.

Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable. [Lat., Actutum fortunae solent mutarier; varia vita est.]