What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.

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.

I’m talking about other kinds of hunger. Desire.

Who goeth a borrowing Goeth a sorrowing.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.

I would always fall down the big main staircase in our house. My favorite thing in the world was to pretend to be horribly killed at the top of it, and to fall dramatically down to the bottom of it.

Everybody in New York is looking for something. Once in a while, somebody finds it.

A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.

The doubts of love are never to be wholly overcome; they grow with its various anxieties, timidities, and tenderness, and are the very fruits of the reverence in which the admired object is beheld.

I've always been motivated to be a champion since the age of 13 and I love being a winner.

I've never been fired in my life. From anything. I've never failed at anything I've tried.

Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.