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.

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.

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.

Hanging onto a bad buy will not redeem the purchase.

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.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt.

Something larger is happening than just going to heaven.

Liberating but hard to remember we're just bit-parts in the lives of people we know, who care very little for our secrets

In most good stories, it is the character's personality that creates the action of the story. If you start with real personality, a real character, then something is bound to happen.

Traveling is all very well if you can get home at night. I would be willing to go around the world if I came back in time to light the candles and set the table for supper.

The role of education is to interest the child profoundly in an external activity to which he will give all his potential

SCIENCE! thou fair effusive ray From the great source of mental Day, Free, generous, and refin'd! Descend with all thy treasures fraught, Illumine each bewilder'd thought, And bless my labour'g mind.

The past is a script we are constantly rewriting.

Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.