Flowers always make people better happier and more helpful they are sunshine food and medicine to the soul.

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.

The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy.

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.

Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason. . . .

Heredity is nothing but stored environment.

We must return to nature and nature's god.

A flower is an educated weed.

[A]s if enjoying a last, drawn-out supper, he sips on Alexandria's shadows.

I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

True knowledge comes only through suffering.

I don't need an award to inspire me to keep making music.

Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.

No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.

The statistics requested respecting the number of crimes that have been solved by tracing the firearm back to the registered owner are not kept at this time and are therefore not available.

A library is where you meet fascinating characters you never forget.

A prolonged future doesn't excite me. It would have to have a point.

The whole universe is contained within a single human being - you.