We seek the love of others to have another reason to love ourselves. |

The more we love someone, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that true love shows itself. |

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal. |

You can fix it now on the drafting board with an eraser or you can fix it later on the construction site with a sledge hammer. |

Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts. |

Be brave, my heart. Plant your feet and square your shoulders to the enemy. Meet him among the man-killing spears. Hold your ground. In victory, do not brag; in defeat, do not weep. |

We don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training. |

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. |

I have only one thing to do:
be the wave that I am and then
sink back into the ocean. |

There is love in holding and there is love in letting go. |

It's only words... unless they're true. |

Always tell the truth. It's the easiest thing to remember. |

If everyone likes your design, it's banal. Mediocrity shirks offense. Art dares it. |

A real democracy would be a meritocracy where those born in the lower ranks could rise as far as their natural talents and discipline might take them. |

Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history. |

Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation. |

One person can make a difference, and everyone should try. |

That which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil. |

A prototype is a question, embodied. |

If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up. |

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors. |

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure. |

Love, like fire, goes out without fuel. |

He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace. |