Without mountains the air could not be purified, nor the flowing of the rivers sustained.

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.

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

If you don't believe in yourself, why should anyone else?

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

If a piece of knotted string can unleash the wind, and if a drowned man can awaken, then I believe a broken man can heal.

When we were attacked militarily it was our duty to defend our country.

I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea. And the silence of the city when it pauses, And the silence of a man and a maid, And the silence for which music alone finds the word.

Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.

I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration.

Let there be no innovation; keep to what has been handed down.

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.