It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

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.

You must discipline yourself consistently to do what others do occasionally in order to have the future few will get to experience.

A flower blooming in a storm is stronger than a tree blossoming under a rainbow.

His voice is like a thunderstorm, and his hands know every secret hidden deep beneath the cool, dark earth.

The modern diet is grossly deficient in hundreds of important plant-derived immunity-building compounds which makes us highly vulnerable to viruses, infections and disease.

For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.

Once you stop learning, you start dying

The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.

I've had a face-lift. I've had my eyes done; liposuction; the nose job - well, that was a long time ago.

To know is to care, to care is to act, to act is to make a difference.

I barely got out of high school and I look back at my life often and go, "Wow, this was awesome!"