That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

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.

Pursue your goal. Opinions be damned.

Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests.

In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement.

Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.

So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country.

No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new as the world on its first morning.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that's why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform.

Peace will come when people have food.

The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.