I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth.

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.

Music is the only language which can be understood by everyone—even a tree can understand music.

At least at times of loss, we are reminded of our priorities, of our many blessings. In times of gain, we can so often lose our way.

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

I love going out every night. It’s so exciting.

It's hard enough to get things to work in a musical way.

Sharing information, art, music, and everything on the internet now has become a part of everyone's lives.

If I lost your respect...I'm just hope you don't look at me as something you regret.

I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books.

The face staring back at me isn't beautiful but she isn't something that would scare the horses, either.

Ministers and merchants love nobody.