If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses

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.

How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.

You must know what to do with your time if you must become great in this life. You must know what to do with your time if you must fulfill your purpose on the earth.

The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament.

After you pray, accept, adapt and move on, .. That's what winners do.

I never really paid attention to sales until the second record.

I don't regret any of the musical decisions I have made.

Here's the interesting thing: the fact that QE and lowering interest rates almost to zero has worsened inequality, does not mean that raising interest rates will help reduce inequality.

Everything is cleansed and purified by the rains, and the Earth blossoms in beauty.

A quick comeback is usually meant as license to be mean.

Thanks for the American dream, to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through. Thanks for a country where nobody's allowed to mind their own business.