We are only the trustees for those who come after us.

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.

I am a lover of words.If your words don't play with me, nothing else in you will.

When we seek God for answers, we must persevere in prayer, letting it build up day after day until the force of it becomes a mighty tide pushing over all obstacles.

God picked me to be his punching bag...so who am I suposed to pray to for mercy?

A world without fairy tales and myths would be as drab as life without music

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

That peculiarly American religion, President-worship.

The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan.

I wonder sometimes if I'm the only one spending my life making the same mistake over and over again or if that's simply human. Do we all tend toward a single besetting sin?

Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.

Not only is the world informed of everything about you, but of a great deal more.