When you struggle hard and lose money, you're a hero. When you start making money you become a capitalist swine.

The living room should be a place where we feel totally at ease - temple of the soul.

The designer's job is to imagine the world not how it is, but how it should be.

If our homes should provide anything, they should provide a sense of who we are and how we got here, a sense of connection balanced by a sense of direction and progress.

Good design is probably 98% common sense. Above all, an object must function well and efficiently-and getting that part right requires a good deal of time and attention.

Furniture and food are ways that people define their attitude toward life. They'll buy better stuff if it's offered to them.

Hanging onto a bad buy will not redeem the purchase.

People whose talents are not exploited become disenchanted and disruptive.

Arguably the only goods people need these days are food and happiness.

I've never met a truly creative person who was happy and satisfied with life.

I've often been sorry to see a night end, even while I have loved seeing the dawn come.

Their eyes persecuted him everywhere, eventually following him all the way into the darkness around his bed and into his dreams, like a madness that threatened to overpower him.

Hopefully, I can play both sides of the fence. That's probably what winning the Oscar gives me, the chance to do something with a studio and do other things that I really want to do.

Laughter is eternity if joy is real.

The photoshoot glitz and TV studio make-up isn't the real me. I spend most days at home in Bristol in jeans and a T-shirt running around after the kids or shopping in the Co-op.

Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by-product of that preparation.

As a leader, the most important earthly relationship you can cultivate is your relationship with yourself.

As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like.

Yes Rosalie, we all know how proficient of an assassin you are.

But what have I, but what have I, my friend, To give you, what can you receive from me? Only the friendship and the sympathy Of one about to reach her journey's end.