Too little confidence, and you're unable to act; too much confidence, and you're unable to hear.

Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they expand the horizon of possibilities.

When people say, 'I don't get art' ... that means art is working.

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.

Creativity's about ownership.

The problem isn't how to make the world more technological. It's about how to make the world more humane again.

Simplicity and complexity need each other.

If you are going to have less things, they have to be great things.

Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form.

All I want to be is, someone that makes, new things and, thinks about them.

Caw! Caw, Hartley, caw!"Chase narrowed his eyes again."Sam?"I nodded. Then crossed to the window again and called down to Sam. "You can quit squawking. He caught me.

Following a spiritual path doesn't mean we won't feel emotional pain. But faith gives us the grace and the courage to get through it and the knowing that we will heal and be a better person for it.

Now I realize what I've known all along, that this ability, or this gift, rather, comes at a cost. It always has.

There are no permanent changes because change itself is permanent.

And you know, I agree to everything: I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy, Darkness will be light and sin lovely.

Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.

Ideas are information taking shape.

I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time.

When priorities are proper, the power to endure is increased. And when internalized, those priorities will help keep you from "going overboard."

Greatness is a matter of a moment. Goodness is the work of a lifetime.