Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

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 treat me better than I've ever treated myself.

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.

Even under the most difficult circumstances you can have creative flexibility.

Choosing is existence. To the extent that you don't choose, you don't exist.

Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin.

In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them.

I'm not looking for Miss Right, right now. I'm just sort of working on becoming Mr. Right.

I'm only doing whatever the next role calls for.

What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake. If you're interested in the cake, you get rather annoyed with people saying what species the real plum was.

So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You're lucky if you can control your bladder.