Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man.

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.

If they didn't want to know, they shouldn't have asked.

They always tell you to do what you love. But they forget to add that writing doesn't pay by the hour.

Everything is a sin. It all depends on which person you happen to offend with your free will.

Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list.

She was torn between the impulse to run and the urge to curl up like a pill bug, close her eyes, tuck her head beneath her arms, and play the game of since-I-can't-see-monsters-monsters-can't-see-me.

TEACHER seeks pupil. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person.

Marriage isn't a passion-fest; it's more like a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane, and often boring nonprofit business. And I mean this in a good way.

I tried to stay away from King. You can't do it. It's like staying away from taxes. Sooner or later, he'll get you.

You have to find a small market in which you can get a monopoly and then quickly expand.

I don't think you can call yourself a freedom-loving American and be a Democrat.