You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.

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.

Try to become aware of one feeling a day, keeping in mind that by doing so, you are building your data bank of self-knowledge

These people make my family look easy to get along with.

Wilderness is wise

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

Music is a permanent art, it will always go through phases where you like it and are in tune with it, but saying that music "got bad" is infantile. The same is true with your life.

Forgive everybody everything everyday.

It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself.

Let me fall. Let me climb. There's a moment where fear and dream must collide.

I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.

My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency.