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

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.

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.

No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.

Energy drinks like Red Bull may give you wings for the moment, but in time it takes away your basic physical and mental wellness and leads to disastrous psychiatric and physiological conditions.

Stop explaining to others, people will only understand from their level of discernment.

If you remember yourself, you will remember me. I am always a part of you. I am your mother.

We may legitimately see in the [Old Testament] event, or in the record of it, additional levels of significance in the light of the end of the story – i.e. in the light of Christ

I've said this before, and I say it again. Bagels can be an enormous power for good or for evil. It is up to us to decide how we will use them.

God's covenant with the church and Israel is unbreakable.

The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity.

I am interested in the confines of the page and busting through/off the page as well. A writer must let go of the line when writing prose poems, which brings its own pleasures.

History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and holds the field.

When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.