Late February days; and now, at last, Might you have thought that Winter's woe was past; So fair the sky was and so soft the air.

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.

People will look at the world without seeing anything beyond their unconscious expectation.

For poets the wages of sin are poverty.

Well, I am something, Ma, you hissed, I am not nothing, I am somebody and I know what I want from life and I know what to do to get it. I will provide for myself.

The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit and time, and, reflecting zeitgeist, lasts as long as ore and stone.

Words that arise spontaneously out of the state of presence are charged with spiritual power: the power to awaken.

There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.

It's weird, because usually if you're British and you go to America you play baddies; but I play naughty people here and goodies in America.

the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.

Should you protect profits? Yes. But run for the hills? No.

I had just settled Grandma on her folding chair and popped open our box lunch when the corpse floated by.