If you do not wish for His kingdom do not pray for it. But if you do you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.

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.

Nothing stays forgotten for long, Elly. Sometimes we simply have to remind the world that we're still here.

She has vivid pictures of Hell. It is as hot as Rajputana in June and everyone is made to learn seven foreign languages . . .

Down to the Puritan marrow of my bones There's something in this richness that I hate. I love the look, austere, immaculate, Of landscapes drawn in pearly monotones.

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

I've always loved food too much to be a model.

Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.

Doing comedy is as easy as doing anything else. You're dependent totally on the material.

The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.

I feel just like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman. You know, except for the whole hooker thing.

Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.