It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them.

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.

God is not ignoring your prayers, He is working behind the scene perfecting all that concerns you, praise Him.

Look beyond now.The road ahead offers a good voyage.

At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.

Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.

Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.

I cannot help it; reason has nothing to do with it; I love her against reason-but who would as soon love me for my own sake, as she would love the beggar at the corner.

I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would.

Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker.

Faith is the head chemist of the mind.

I'm not dismissing the value of higher education; I'm simply saying it comes at the expense of experience.