Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.

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.

Accept who you are

I adore [my son]. I wouldn't trade him in for a Pulitzer - unless someone actually offered that as an option.

I think the birds in the area are dying laughing watching me try not to crash.

The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.

If God has called you to something, He will equip you to be what He has called you to be. If He has called you to be a responsible, faithful, diligent leader, as a man, He will equip you to do that.

I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is.

Conventional economic theory... counts the depletion of resources as the accumulation of wealth.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world.

Let your speech be true and sweet.