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.

Rejection is one thing - but rejection from a fool is cruel.

I don't write about you because you don't deserve to be immortalised in my words.I'll leave you to float around in my mind until forgetfulness comes to take you away.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden deaths do.

I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run.

We can only belong when we offer our most authentic selves and when we're embraced for who we are.

Living one's life with unguarded vulnerability is one of the keys to happiness. It's also one of the keys to getting mugged.

No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.

Angels never attack, as infernal spirits do. Angels only ward off and defend.

I fear looking back and wishing I had done things I hadn't.

And please don't call me that." I didn't call you 'that', I called you George Washington.