Quote Tag

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

If you’re gonna make connections which are innovative… you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does.

A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

It’s very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I’d listen to Italian music.