The true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him.

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.

Every day is a new day to hope, dream and try again.

...what she had been waiting to see on someone else's face was not empathy but the companionship of unmitigated suffering...

I think one thing writers can do is point out that you don't have to say openly racist things, like [Donald] Trump, to be a racist or a xenophobe.

I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood.

The biggest battle in life is with yourself

The Internet is not a place. It’s a great void, a black hole, from which you can call up an incredible amount of disorganized information.

Let us decide on the route that we wish to take to pass our life, and attempt to sow that route with flowers.

Terrorism is fueled by hate. The tragedy is that there are countless young children who are being taught to hate. Terrorism is usually fueled also by poverty.

Cavalry is useful before, during, and after the battle.

I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly