Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

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

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

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

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee.The teevee debilitates our culture.

Fly with a kind heart, a light spirit, and a resilient soul.

There, did you think to kill me? There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea.Ideas are bulletproof. Farewell.

The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them there ought to be as many for love.

Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world.

I think its sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to get young people into the theatre and expose them to Shakespeare.

It's so laughable that it's somewhere beyond comedy and right into tragedy again.

The Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it - a bit like Christians in the Church of England.

Chess is a sad waste of brains.

The nation ought to have a tax system which looks like someone designed it on purpose.