He who is not actively kind is cruel!

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.

Life is the greatest blessed gift.

It’s hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your reader’s imagination when you’re telegraphing your punches.

A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.

I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

There are only two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired, and those who will be fired.

Watch the indolent butterfly playing on the tall flower in the yard and think about the sun going down. It always does you know.

It's like reading a book about a life that you will never occupy, but that's the beauty of being transported.

Apprentices and servants are characters perfectly distinct: the one receives instruction, the other a stipulated price for his labour.

My advice to everybody - never give up and have great resiliency. Don't take the rejection personally, but listen if it’s intelligent and make changes if they’re needed and then move forward.