All rooms ought to look as if they were lived in, and to have so to say, a friendly welcome ready for the incomer.

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

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

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

Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user.

I am going your way, so let us go hand in hand. You help me and I'll help you. We shall not be here very long ... so let us help one another while we may.

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.

Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers.

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.

Your heart is the compass, Your soul is the journey...

I never turned to drink. It seemed to turn to me.

In fact, if you look at the root word of phonograph it just means phonetics of graphology, phono-graph, writing with sound, so graphology. You know graffiti, same root word.

Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.

You cannot play the hypocrite before God; and to obtain pardon you must cease to sin, as well as to be exercised by a spirit of repentance.

Indeed, the U.N. is the main Soviet espionage center in this country.

We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give them their head.

I wish my capacity for reason would always translate into action, but it doesn't.

Everyone in America likely has a bullying story, whether as the victim, bully or as a witness.

We artists are hypersensitive, or we wouldn't be - couldn't be - artists.