Keeping a diary supports personal development.

Hobbies are for people that don't like what they're doing.

To be a good designer, you would need to have deep and far-reaching interests outside of the profession.

Complaining is silly. Either act or forget.

You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design.

I think it's ultimately inhuman to only see things for their functionality. We want things to be more than that. The desire for beauty is something that's in us, and it's not trivial.

Ensure it feels like it's made by humans, for humans.

Yes, design can make you happy.

I have done enough bullshit lately, I just have to make time for something better. Something good.

I don't think there is a particular responsibility on designers that is not on other professions... I think there's a responsibility for all of us to engage on all levels.

I discovered that I never really used Helvetica but I like to look at it. I like the VW beetle, too, although I've never driven one.

I did not know of any single soul who succeed in life without a mentorship.

You will generally observe that, of all Americans, your foreign-born citizens are the most patriotic - especially toward the Fourth of July.

That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

I feel like little bits of my soul are being shipped domestically.

So far China has won the most gold medals, ladies and gentlemen. The Chinese athletes can't wait to get home and show the medals off to the kids who made them.

Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired.

Not prayer without faith, nor faith without prayer, but prayer in faith, is the cost of spiritual gifts and graces.

I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom.

Good intentions are useless until they are expressed in appropriate action!

Oh, it's nice to get up in the mornin', But it's nicer to lie in bed.