Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

Design is everything. Everything!

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.

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.

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.

I can and I will! Just watch me!

...her very kindness was cruel because it was founded not on love but on reason...

Lovers are not snails

Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.

The butterflies I get are not if somebody boos me in the crowd, or somebody talks trash about me during the week, or somebody on ESPN rips me. It's the pressure that I'm putting on myself.

The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.

The minute you realize that your options are unlimited, things just start falling into place all around you.

I enjoy acting. It's not that I begin to think I'm getting better. I now fully know that I've made no improvement whatsoever since I was 20. I can live with it.

Only the inner silence is yours. No-one gave it to you. You were born with it and you will die with it. Thoughts have been given to you. You have been conditioned to them.

Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.