I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.

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.

Progress isn’t always good. There’s a reason why ‘breakneck speed’ is described as such.

If anything is poisoning our lives and weakening our society it is reality - and not the fabrication of television writers and producers.

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

I would agree with [criminal suspects being subjected to a DNA test after arrest]...if that's one step closer to finding out who has (committed a crime), then I think we should do it.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

If you really want to be successful and you really want to be happy, don't have a job, have a purpose. ...When you've got a purpose, the whole world is your office.

To eat steak rare . . . represents both a nature and a morality.

Precedent goes in support of justice.

Women who are stunningly beautiful are women who... love truly and honestly without demanding that they be loved in return.

In Italy there is a supreme know-how and a desire to achieve that doesn't really exist anywhere else. You can't make clothes like that in America, because it's just not in the tradition.