Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along.

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.

You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes.

You shouldn’t say mean things to people before they kill you. It’s being a sore loser.

The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.

I'm not above anybody. I'm, I'm not better than anybody. I am made of the same material that everybody else is and if somebody can be a saint, so can I and if somebody can be a torturer, so can I.

When we feel that we lack whatever is needed to secure someone else's esteem, we are very close to hating him

We have no evidence whatsoever that the soul perishes with the body.

Nothing good comes of reading other people's emails.

Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.

Every one of us has the capacity to lead.

Our limbic system sets the mind's emotional tone and stores our highly charged emotional memories.