R.T. Wolfe Quotes

The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.

Eating outdoors makes for good health and long life and good temper, everyone knows that.

I can't paint. I can't write. I can't sing. But I can decorate and run a house, and light it, and heat it, and have it like a living thing.

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

Beautify your thoughts. Thoughts are the headwaters of action, life and manifestation.

My business is to preach to you the beauty of suitability.

Simplicity, suitability and proportion.

When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old.

Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We'll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure.

It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination.

Imagine a man who stands before a mirror; a stone strikes it, and it falls to ruin all in an instant. And the man learns that he is himself, and not the mirrored man he had believed himself to be.

A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.

When I am no longer being copied, I shall know that I am a back number. ... the fear of being copied is often the characteristic of the meager imagination.

Good dressing is largely a question of detail and accessories.

There is one voyage, the first, the last, the only one.

God created black people and black people created style.

We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.

There’s no sight on earth more appealing than that of a woman making dinner for someone she loves.

Dear Mother, I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried.... I have met some Beautiful People and...

I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.

People don't want other people to be people.

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Make different teas with the superherbs or create new smoothies with the superfoods. Better yet, take your superherb tea and blend it with your superfoods to make the best elixirs ever.

You're either on the bus or off the bus.

a woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance.

It is not chic to be too chic.

Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later.

It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue - simplicity is the mark of a master-hand.

The calcium theory has probably done more to damage our health than any single theory in the history of humanity.

I've done 80 books and if anyone has entertained the idea of owning one of my books, I think this is the book that covers all the bases. I'm very proud of it.

Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.

True beauty comes from the inside out. It emerges from proper thinking, as well as proper nutrition and exercise.

Put your good where it will do the most!

don't make each room a different color in a small apartment or you'll make yourself nervous.

If you think humans are meat-eaters then try eating the animal raw like every other meat-eater on the planet. If something is not palatable in its raw state then you probably shouldn't be eating it.

If you eat well, you can transform your life.

You can't go home again

Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are, there's not going to be anything to apologize about.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

Chaga is the most powerful cancer-fighting herb known and fights all kinds of radiation damage to healthy tissue.

the smallest part is worthy of the whole.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

You can't get a bad picture out of Bacall. There's nothing eccentric about her. She's perfect all over and yet she looks like nobody else.

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.

I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.

Sometimes we don't even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the symbols.

Cacao is rich in happy phenethylamine chemicals called PEA. These compounds have been associated with feeling good and falling in love.

My daily routine is to make every day the best day.