True taste is forever growing, learning, reading, worshipping, laying its hand upon its mouth because it is astonished, casting its shoes from off its feet because it finds all ground holy.

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.

He understood how dangerous oaths could be. But Leo didn't care. "I'm coming back for you, Calypso, " he said to the night wind. "I swear it on the River Styx.

Love corrupts and absolute love corrupts absolutely. The unreasonable systems of men, that is.

Letter-writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

The reason why I like theater is because it's a long journey, and no matter what role you play, we are all in it together.

In practice, I've had a presence in China since 1998 with my commercial spaces and shops.

Art is as natural as sunshine and as vital as nourishment.

The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.

You have to write a song around this specific character or to enhance a specific scene. A lot of other craft goes on.

I have been so lucky to receive so much love from those who enjoy my music, that I feel I have to give as much of it as I can back to children.