Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.

The playful search for beauty.

I don't call myself an 'industrial designer,' because I'm other things. Industrial designers want to make novel things. Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.

When I met my designs in the market of a remote village in the West Indies, or in the airport restaurant in Zurich, I felt like the mother of many well-behaved children.

Everything I do is a direct creation of my hands, whether it is made in wood, plaster or clay.

I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind.

Beautiful things make people happy.

My designs are meant to attract the hand as well as the eye.

I think with my hands. I design things to be touched-not for a museum. A piece is ready when it has the shape of something to cherish.

If you think of beautiful things, you’re not sad.

When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds.

College is not important, knowledge is

It's time to forget about the past, 
To wash away what happened last, 
Hide behind an empty face, 
Don't act too much, just say, 
'Cause this is just a game.

You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, "Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let 's just sit down and begin to talk peace."

I do think that a return to basic values and to a sense of who Greece - who we are as people can only be for the better in the long run.

If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter's rights of the heart.

Ere the blabbing eastern scout, The nice morn, on th' Indian steep From her cabin'd loop-hole peep.

Persons drinking coffee, as a general rule, eat less, though coffee, and also tea, have little direct food value; but they retard the waste of the tissues, and so take the place of food.

Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.

Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.

If it's not one thing, it's your mother.