We could change the world tomorrow if all the millions of people around the world acted the way they believe.
All rooms ought to look as if they were lived in, and to have so to say, a friendly welcome ready for the incomer.
Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
what I mean by Socialism is a condition of society in which there should be neither rich nor poor, neither master nor master's man, neither idle nor overworked, neither brainslack brain workers, nor heartsick hand workers, in a word, in which all men would be living in equality of condition, and would manage their affairs unwastefully, and with the full consciousness that harm to one would mean harm to all-the realisation at last of the meaning of the word commonwealth.
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.
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 all the details of daily life.
The point is, that the function of the novel seems to be changing; it has become an outpost of journalism; we read novels for information about areas of life we don't know - Nigeria, South Africa, the American army, a coal-mining village, coteries in Chelsea, etc. We read to find out what is going on. One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel - the quality of philosophy.
I would love to be in 'Downton Abbey. ' That's the thing I thing many people would have a good laugh with me saying anything like that. I feel like that's the next phase of my career. To reprove to everyone that I can do things besides the crazy characters.
After the devil himself, there is no worse folk than the pope and his followers.
AIDS is the leprosy of the 21st Century. Where did Jesus hang out? With lepers. Jesus would love on people with AIDS.