Levi's station in life was the receipt of custom; and Peter's, the shore of Galilee; and Paul's, the antechambers of the High- Priest, which "station in life" each had to leave, with brief notice.

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.

The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable...that what we take for granted may not be here for our children

What physics looks for: The simplest possible system of thought which will bind together the observed facts.

It's hard for parents just to measure schools.

The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be--

Tis easy now for the heart to be true As for grass to be green or skies to be blue-- 'Tis the natural way of living.

I believe animals should be respected as citizens of this earth. They should have the right to their own freedom, their own families, and their own life.

It was as if the power and loneliness of the vampires' world had combined with the group oriented puppy-pile world of the shapeshifters and made something new.

Nothing will do more damage to the pro-European movement than giving room to the suspicion that we have something to hide, that we do not have the “cojones” to carry our argument to the people.

It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.

All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don't imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and meme machines as well.