Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

The man who worries morning and night about the dandelions in the lawn will find great relief in loving the dandelions.

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.

The happiest life has the greatest number of points of contact with the world, and it has the deepest feeling and sympathy with everything that is.

One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in plants, in the winds and rains, in birds and insects, in the warm-smelling earth.

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

...if that Watergate case ever gets into court, he might get very nervous.

We need to be strong on the inside and have God’s character and qualities

Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.

My inner goddes has her sequins on and is warming up to dance the rumba.

Family is the most important thing in the world. If everything ended tomorrow and my family was still there, I'd be the happiest man alive.

I choose kindness... I will be kind to the poor, for they are alone. Kind to the rich, for they are afraid. And kind to the unkind, for such is how God has treated me

I have a career, I worked so hard for it.

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.