“The fundamental idea of design is to make the world a better place.”

“Good design is good business.”

“I pay a lot of attention to how things are done, the whole activity of building something is interesting to me.”

“Design is nothing but a humble understanding of materials, a natural instinct for solutions, and respect for nature.”

“When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty—but when I’ve finished, if the solution isn’t beautiful, I know it is wrong.”

“My forms are geometric, but they don’t interact in a geometric sense. They’re just forms that exist everywhere, even if you don’t see them.”

“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”

“If people understand, there’s no need to explain. If they don’t there’s no use explaining.”

“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.”

“It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.”

“Designing is not a profession but an attitude.”

“Minimalism is not defined by what is not there but by the rightness of what is and the richness with which this is experienced.”

“Listen to Mustn’ts, child, listen to the Don’ts. Listen to the Shouldn’ts, the Impossibles, the Won’ts. Listen to the Never Haves, then listen close to me. Anything can happen, child, Anything can be.”

“This message we smuggle out in it’s plain cover, to be opened quietly: Friends everywhere — we are alive! Those moon rockets have missed millions of secret Places!
Best wishes.
Burn this.”

“If you perceive the universe as being a universe of abundance, then it will be. If you think of the universe as one of scarcity, then it will be. I always thought that there was enough of everything to go around—that there are enough ideas in the universe and enough nourishment.”

“You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.”

“There is no real security except for whatever you build inside yourself.”

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

“If you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man’s hunger.”

“The pleasure of making things beautiful or useful involves your feelings as well as your thinking.”

“Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”

“If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.”