The Alessi relationship and the Target one has broadened the role of architects in society and broadened the concept that design belongs to everyone.

In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good

My favorite project is always the next one.

Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.

If I have a style, I am not aware of it.

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.

I wouldn't have been a health care nut if it hadn't been for my paralysis, so something good came from this.

I've always believed that what can make a domestic setting truly home is the infusion of a cultural dimension.

I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.

Exercise is like an old friend: You may not be able to see that friend all the time, but you're not mad when you see them, you're happy, and you get right back into it.

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

I just recently realized. It's very strange. But doing fight scenes with Kate [Beckinsale], I was little bit more cautious. You can go harder with a guy, which I don't mean as an insult.

Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity.

Power is a neutral energy source, like tofu. It's what you do with it that gives it flavor.

Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.

Grow deep roots to harvest rich fruit! When your roots run deep, you cannot help but bear the fruit of the Spirit.

I think in my twenties I tended to think of all people as sort of more or less alike. In now think that people are really different in all these subtle ways that are very important.

If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.

I avoid literature whenever possible, because whenever possible I avoid myself.