It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

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.

Oh my love, I like to vanish in you like a ripple vanishes in an ocean—slowly, silently, and endlessly.

If you want to know the value of a week ask the editor of a weekly magazine if he fails to meet up with the target of his weekly publication.

Laughter separates us from despair, and gives us a chance at love.

If you read the literature of Soviet Communism, you see a dogma that's chilling. On the other hand, if you read the literature of anti-communism, it's every bit as dogmatic.

Mr Blawke always reminded me of a heron; I'm not sure why. Something to do with a sense of rapacious stillness, perhaps, and also the aura of one who knows time is on his side.

I don't think I've left a trail of weeping women in my wake. I mean, the number of serious relationships I've had has not been into double digits.

Stand up for your principles, but be a decent human being while you're doing it.

I think Ian likes you too much

Jogging is for people who aren't intelligent enough to watch television.

it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody