We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining.

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.

Answered prayers cover the field of providential history as flowers cover western prairies.

We will not build a society that reflects who we are and that has opportunities for equality or justice if we don't make progress for all participants.

I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible.

When you sing, always tell the truth.

Everything we know, we learned from someone else!

Fear is faith that it won't work.

My old man never liked me. He gave me my allowance in traveler's checks.

Ive always seen myself as sort of this funky, eclectic artist.

People assume that 'The Expendables' is old school, but it's only old school because that's the way I know how to make an action film. It's pretty real.

I must dedicate my life to teaching my people, for only education would make their lot less bitter, their latent power more strong.