Failure is less attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labours than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done.

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.

That girl is a grade one a-hole with a severe attitudinal problem.

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.

Hath any wronged thee? be bravely revenged; slight it, and the work is begun; forgive it, and it is finished; he is below himself that is not above an injury.

The essence of sculpture is for me the perception of space, the continuum of our existence.

she’s not as pretty as you,” I said “But she’s a simpler girl,” my mother whispered.

I'm a ballplayer, not an actor.

Loneliness is an aspect of the land.

Without making any moral judgements whatsoever, one can say that self-indulgence and excessive self-preoccupation are the antithesis of genuine awareness.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

In everything I do, whether in business, philanthropy or my personal life, I am guided by my inner truth, my values.