However, when it can be proved to me that there is immortality, that there is resurrection beyond the gates of death, then will I believe. Until then, no.

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.

Every word was once a poem.

I've learned... . That being kind is more important than being right.

If you are looking for a job that may make you sick, I can recommend working at a high powered solar photovoltaic (PV) utility power plant.

The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods.

No challenge can stop you if you have the courage to keep moving forward in the face of your greatest fears and biggest challenges. Be courageous.

A final reminder. Whenever you are in Paris at twilight in the early summer, return to the Seine and watch the evening sky close slowly on a last strand of daylight fading quietly, like a sigh.

It's not that I don't see myself as hot and sexy. Don't get me wrong. No, it's not that.

The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.

There was a reason why there was only a single stairway to heaven, but an entire highway to hell.

To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world.