All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

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.

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.

Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk.

A person sometimes can't make a decision unless they know what decision to make.

My springboard is always the script. Even if the script is taken from a novel, I often haven't read the novel...

I don't think individual achievement in business is the most meaningful way for it to operate.

Once a suggestion has entered the general atmosphere of human thought, it is very difficult to neutralise it.

Pale sunlight, pale the wall. Love moves away. The light changes I need more grace than I thought.

There is no control and perfection is arrogant. Practice messiness, letting go, and doing things badly.

Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other 90 percent of the people?"

The cause I am most passionate about is natural birthing. I had my son at home, and it was the most primal, intuitive, empowering, and loving experience I've ever had.