Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

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.

Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case.

Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.

Billie Holiday's voice was the voice of living intensity of soul in the true sense of that greatly abused word.

Possessions and concessions are not often what they seem, they drag you down and load you down in disguise of security.

I used to go into the studio around midnight and stay all night.

When we let go of believing we are superior, we open ourselves to the experience of living in the community of Nature.

I am here to seduce you into a love of life; to help you to become a little more poetic; to help you die to the mundane and to the ordinary so that the extraordinary explodes in your life. .

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family.

Any distraction tends to get in the way of being an effective gangster.

I am an Air Force brat - that's the terminology they use for military kids who are traveling constantly.