Of all those arts in which the wise excel Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

Nature's great masterpiece an elephant the only harmless great thing.

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.

We talk of our mastery of nature which sounds very grand but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves first to her ways.

Earth and sky woods and fields lakes and rivers the mountain and the sea are excellent schoolmasters and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

I have worked on very good movies that have been buried and I've worked on some resounding mediocrities that have been paraded through the marketplace like they were masterpieces.

I couldn't be happier about being a part of 'Hunger Games' and to play Katniss. I have a huge responsibility to the fans of this incredible book and I don't take it lightly. I will give everything I have to these movies and to this role to make it worthy of Suzanne Collins' masterpiece.

I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter but I think you can recognise my films.

We didn't care if we were well-liked as long as the movies were good. We served the movie - that was our master at Miramax. In our second incarnation the movie is still the master but we're getting the same results in more subtle ways.

Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Marriage n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master a mistress and two slaves making in all two.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach who walk their talk.

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life never deciding to master anything in particular.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul the director of his life.