Nature is always mysterious and secret in her use of means; and art is always likest her when it is most inexplicable.

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 communicates with the soul.

I am proud. It will get me into trouble someday, but today it makes me brave

Your only vice is yourself. The worst of all. The really incurable one.

When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude.

The tongue should not be suffered to outrun the mind.

I decline Christianity because it is Jewish, because it is international, and because, in cowardly fashion, it preaches Peace on Earth.

People hold an image of you and project that image when they feel you are changing. Disappear for a while. Break up your routines.

To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless.

Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome When no force else can get the masterdom

The journey is the reward