The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.

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.

Smile at a friend, at a stranger, at an enemy, at life’s absurdities and the universe will smile back at you.

A sick man that gets talking about himself a woman that gets talking about her baby and an author that begins reading out of his own book never know when to stop.

Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.

The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.

Glass is the most magical of all materials. It transmits light in a special way.

Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it.

I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.

Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.

On my own account I certainly wouldn't have become the director of a couture house. I didn't have sufficient admiration for fashion as such to have done so.

Say goodbye to the energy vampires in your life (the negative souls who steal your enthusiasm).