As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime.

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 state of our surroundings, tells the conditions of our soul.

Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia.

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

I'm so sick of mermaid dresses, trains, borrowed bling-bling, and a pose.

No offence to Nicki Minaj, but her career has essentially been a Lil’ Kim tribute

Books became her friends, and there was one for every mood.

I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.

There are many ways to the Divine. I have chosen the ways of song, dance, and laughter.

Courage... is not a selfish attribute: it is only possible if you are pursuing a wider and more worthy goal.

And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.