To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admiration, you must be among beautiful things and looking at them.

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.

There is always going to be evil as long as goodness lives on.

Smile, it’s the second best thing youcan do with your lips.

I still sing because I love the sound of applause, because it's who I am, and because I still can.

When opportunity presents itself grab it. Hold on tight and don’t let go.

Do nothing and hope the enemy fades away.

Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.

War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.

You keep wondering whether people will see that Barack Obama is a liar and not very bright.

What a childhood I had - I was ten years old when I found out Alpo was dog food.

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.