No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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.

I would fight of course. Oh, I would fight. Better destroy everything than surrender her.

After you're older two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

Uncertainty in the pressure of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales.

I tried to get as far away from home as possible after I graduated from high school because I had a hard time being a kid.

I have a great advantage: I write from the perspective of my own voice. I'm not copying anyone's voice. It's my voice. I have the advantage of being a writer of English as a second language.

Now I know which came first - the chicken not the egg.

The planet is always half light and half dark, and so are we.

Do I look like the kind of person who gives a ****

I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.