The Spirit power begins in directing the Animal power to other than egoistic ends.

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.

No one could preach if he seriously looked at his own sins.

One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nausicaa-- blessing it rather than in love with it.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

I play the piano and write music.

The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

We can sit and worry about what's going to happen to us two weeks from now. I'd rather focus on the amazing things happening right in front of us.

I do not believe that loyalty should demand defending behavior that I find abhorrent.

Quality means conformance to requirements, not elegance.

You, who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your wealth.