I've been influenced by someone or [English artists] work. I mentioned Hans Coper as an example.

We'll be potters, we'll be painters, we'll be textile designers, we'll be jewelers, we'll be a little this, a little of that. We were going to be the renaissance people [when we were young].

In fact, I believe to a certain extent a person today who starts with just clay, with no drawing and no painting and no figure drawing, still-life drawing, various things, they miss a great deal.

So I very quickly stopped almost all decoration. I was interested in the three-dimensional form of the pots, but my decoration was nonexistent.

Every pot is not going to be a masterpiece.

Alix [ MacKenzie] had stopped teaching because we had a child and she stayed home to take care of the baby, and I taught.

[Shoji] Hamada seldom drew an exact drawing of a pot that he was going to make.

It was a wonderful opportunity. And so for two and a half years we lived with [Bernard] Leach.

Bernard's [Leach] drawings delineated every little accent on the pot, every subtle curve and change of angle and proportion and all.

Bernard [Leach] was making pots which were duplicates of his drawing, and that was a difference of approach, which I think is quite critical to these two men [Leach and Shoji Hamada].

And as far as I know about Alix's [MacKenzie] work, I don't believe she ever did any sculptural work at all. It was always pottery.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

I decided what I wanted to do, not to make me look good, but to make me feel comfortable. Other presidents do it other ways.

God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.

I think you're defined as a company by what you choose to do and what you choose not to do.

Develop the ability to stand back as a witness to your thoughts. This will make your mind strong.

Creativity is a voracious animal. It needs to be fed regularly. If you leave it untended for too long, you run the risk of starving your passion and diminishing your spirit.

I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.

The idea of being stuck in a plane with dozens of people chatting over each other on their phones might feel like Dante's 10th circle of hell.

A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

No one who errs unwillingly is evil.