“Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most usel...” — John Ruskin Quote

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me, I like writing songs that move me, and what moves me are beautiful songs on the piano or the guitar and really, really heavy music.

Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over the dark, the place where there's nothing to hang on: it comes from a part of yourself that simply knows, expresses itself, and is.

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.