The most beautiful curve is a rising sales graph.

Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the one with the most attractive exterior will win.

It's a simple exercise; a little logic, a little taste, and the will to cooperate.

The most reliable appliance has simplicity and quality, does what is demanded of it, is economical to use, easy to maintain, and just as easy to repair. ...It also sells best and looks good.

It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process beauty through function and simplification.

It all must start with an inspired, spontaneous idea.

I can claim to have made the daily life of the 20th Century more beautiful.

A designer must always think about the unfortunate production engineer who will have to manufacture what you have designed; try to understand his problems.

Ugliness does not sell.

Good design is not an applied veneer.

When time is reduced to linear progress, it is emptied of presence.

Passionate living is the joy of existence.

If the world is so cruel you are frightened of it, I will hold you, and protect you, and teach it to love you as I already love you.

Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God.

I am deebly self-conscious, and bad.

A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions.

Lincoln was the greatest speaker and he was ridiculed for how he looked, you know?

Every champion has discovered that pain is seasonal. It will pass... Don't be discouraged by it. A New Day is about to dawn in your life!

I have patience for centuries in me and will live as though my time were very big.

We try, and we try, and we fail; and then we go deeper.