I'm not against vodka - they just asked us. They put out some story about us entertaining international celebrities with vodka, which of course wasn't true.

There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable.

Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.

I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.

I think and hope there are far more people aware of the need to look after our future.

No one ever contributed anything to my designs.

I'm not against vodka - they just asked us. They put out some story about us entertaining international celebrities with vodka, which of course wasn't true.

Well the most successful of course was this Polypropylene chair.

I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature.

I can't climb very seriously now but I was a bit of a freak.

I've always walked and climbed; spent a lot of time in the arctic and places.

I think there's a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from the things I've been talking about.

But I think it's important that things endure.

I'm pretty much a vegetarian.

Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.

Well, I'd probably go for any work I could get.

I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function.

We used to get published a lot. And there was this vodka advertisement... it embarrassed me a lot afterwards.

You've got to build a career and a practice.

The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.

It's odd that invoking the possibility of alien influences should itself be a sign of madness. I don't see the need for it to explain history on earth, but I can't see any reason why the universe shouldn't be full of life.

Our grandchildren accept us for ourselves without rebuke or effort to change us as no one in our entire lives has ever done not our parents siblings spouses friends and hardly ever our own grown children.

Whatever it is youre scared of doing do it.

There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe.

I am proud to be Chinese, and I do not tolerate any traitor.

Poking fun at other people's beliefs, while it may seem frivolous and offensive, is a non-negotiable right. It is a principle that underpins free speech, the basis for progress.

I have no great message to the world.

Canada is rich in hydrocarbons and other natural resources... India's requirements and Canada's surplus are a perfect match.

Just as the financial crisis has created toxic assets and 'zombie' financial institutions, so has it transformed conservatism into a movement of the living dead.

When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it.

While it is often true that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, it seems like Yahoo's almost obsessive focus on Google is taking away from its other businesses.

So when the Qur’an is recited, Then listen to it & pay attention that you may receive mercy.

I like underwater life.

If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.

It slightly worries me that when people find a problem, they rush to judgment of what to do.

Paramount Pictures is a perfect partner for Electric Entertainment, with the most stable group of executives in Hollywood and unparalleled global promotion and distribution reach.

Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life

I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Never give in and never give up.

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Hollywood's a very weird place. I think there's less of everything except for attitude.

It's so interesting that when somebody's pregnant, we are obsessed with knowing the gender of the child so we can figure out what we need to buy that child, what the present would be. Like we're pre-programming the kid before they were born.