Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.

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 have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?

The road of life’s twists and turns give wisdom

Can we ever see the truth when desire blinds us? Or do we call it the truth because it is what we wish to see?

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.

I really want people to read the book, and bookstores never sold an issue of Eightball because nobody knew what it was.

I think that was E.T.'s central appeal, personally. E.T. is this metaphorical journey, this strange Odysseus from another world, who just wants to go home. Obviously, home must've been better!

Felicity and I watch the dancers moving as one. They spin about like the earth on it's axis, enduring the dark, waiting for the sun.

Six Characters in Search of an Author.

In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.