Once thoroughly our own, the knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

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 took the sing from your song. I made a bed where you don't belong.

Strong government doesn't mean simply military power or an efficient intelligence apparatus. Instead, it should mean effective, fair administration - in other words, 'good governance.'

Women are the volatile vote at the end-particularly independent, non-college-educated married women.

You're at your best, when you're focused and you're serious and passionate about what you do, but at the same time you can relax and have fun and be confident.

I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.

I spend a lot of time alone so I get a lot done. I don't do much else but work, check things out.

If you compare my character to the others, they were sexy with designer clothes. I had the nerdy outfit.

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

Luck is a strong horse; it can carry man to very distant places!