Heredity: the traits that a disobedient child gets from the other parent.

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.

Don't hyperbolize when things don't flow according to your plan. Things could change when you least expect it. And it is crucial to be flexible at all times.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

True love comes when it will, not when it's called.

Because mountains are high and broad, the way of riding the clouds is always reached in the mountains; the inconceivable power of soaring in the wind comes freely from the mountains

Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change.

In life you have two choices. You can laugh or you can cry. You have to laugh, you have to.

If you gave your best to what you were given, at the time, it's going to play out how it's going to play out.

Why do members of my party constantly go after the president personally?

I'm optimistic that we are actually seeing the opportunity of a generation being created in this.

Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.