Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.

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.

If people never learned the truth about him, then they couldn't turn around and use it against him. The lie was a way of buying protection.

No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope.

President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident.

Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

Cubism came about because, in the process of analyzing form, something that lay in the form, a plane, could be lifted out to float on its own.

I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them.

Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.

I'm responsible for what I am and what I want to be. I'm not trying to live by another's standards.

Imagine how frustrating it is, being completely locked up and watching your family leave, your wife and children, and not being able to do anything about it.