We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.

Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.

One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.

The problem isn't so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.

Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.

The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible.

to design means forcing ourselves to unlearn what we believe we already know, patiently to take apart the mechanisms behind our reflexes and to acknowledge the mystery and stupefying complexity of everyday gestures like switching off a light of turning on a tap