The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

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.

Don’t you dare focus your energy on the 99 reasons something can’t be done. Focus on the one thing you can do and the 99 won’t matter.

I love my soul to spiritually care for it.

It should be held as an eternal truth, that what is morally wrong can never be politically right.

She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

What I am after, above all, is expression.

You stay in touch with the boy who dreamed impossible dreams.

... and she loved a boy very, very much-- even more than she loved herself.

People in bands don't have the kind of conversations people might think they have. The best things about being in a band are the things that are unsaid.

This ocean circulation, a northbound current that sinks and then moves southbound, tends to go through multi-decadal changes.