What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?

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.

The more choices we have, the greater the need for focus.

I would appeal to Philip she said but to Philip sober.

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.

Apart from my children, spending time with refugees was the greatest gift... the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.

I love my baby more than anything. He's like a Gerber baby. He's the cutest baby in the whole world.

I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.

I grew up with the word "volunteer" as a very powerful word in my family. I was inspired by my mother and by how selfless our family was toward others who didn't have enough.

Do not seek dishonest gains: dishonest gains are losses.

It is not only all right but necessary to stand up to George Bush.