The best work never was and never will be done for money.

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.

A bankruptcy judge can fix your balance sheet, but he cannot fix your company.

If something's a little weird, it's Kafkaesque.

I was sometimes jeered by black soldiers who wanted me to sing something besides country music.

A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

The living need charity more than the dead.

The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.

A lot of people probably say I'm stupid, and they're probably right, because there are people who take days off who are still in the league, and I'm not.

Gettin' near the fire, chica, doesn't necessarily mmean you'll get burned.

The really great thing about my shoe store is that there's not one dead animal in it.

Everyone out here in Los Angeles is trying to do whatever to break into films. It is a tough industry to get into, kind of like pro wrestling in a lot of respects when you think about it.