Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

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 highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Friendship can be obtained from anyone at any time. It knows no difference between age, gender, or even species.

And when he got home he started on Mumma. He hated her then, because in her fatness and untidiness and drabness she reminded him of what he himself was when he was sober.

The well understood equity as well as interest of society demand that we work on much more to prevent crime and offenses than to punish them.

Brother, hello and good-bye. Frater, ave atque vale

The only healing I’ve ever known is getting back in that race car — for all us racers.

I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.

Whenever you're unsure of yourself, whenever you're in doubt, ask yourself three questions. What do you believe in? What do you hope for? but most important, ask yourself, what do you love?

I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents.

I'm not going to be the first American president to lose a war.

I just try to be as honest and open as possible with all my music, whether it's live shows or the studio.