In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

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.

Everyone is pretty good at learning. Very few are good at doing.

The would-be Sufi needs guidance precisely because books, texts, while telling you what is needed, do not tell you when.

there is no such thing as shut doors, just ones that have yet to be opened!

What is happiness? Happiness, I think, has to come in the beginning, truly, from feeling a sense of well-being within yourself.

I think it keeps the child alive in me. There's a thrill when you steal something in plain view of other people.

There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears.

The prices of really unhealthy food are kept artificially low, and that contributes to obesity.

It is very important to develop the thing that you are naturally good at, that you are truly interested in.

We should not accept in silence the benefactions of God, but return thanks for them.

Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don't have the freedom to choose.