I am fully and intensely aware that plants are conscious of love and respond to it as they do to nothing else.

I wonder what spendthrift chose to spill Such a bright gold under my windowsill! Is it fair gold? Does it glitter still? Bless me! It's a daffodil!

Sad soul, take comfort, nor forget That sunrise never failed us yet.

Already the dandelions Are changed into vanishing ghosts.

When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before any one is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness.

There shall be an eternal summer in the grateful heart.

Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.

It seems to me the worst of all the plagues is the slug, the snail without a shell. He is beyond description repulsive, a mass of sooty, shapeless slime, and he devours everything.

Ever since I could remember anything, flowers have been like dear friends to me, comforters, inspirers, powers to uplift and to cheer.

This very act of planting a seed in the earth has in it to me something beautiful. I always do it with a joy that is largely mixed with awe.

When the snow is still blowing against the window-pane in January and February and the wild winds are howling without, what pleasure it is to plan for summer that is to be.

Never give a negative thought an inch or it will take a mile.

The ego is a mean mechanism which mobilizes the absolute strongest rationalization traps in order to preserve itself.

We could help the pulpit to understand that the miracle centered gospel is letting our values and culture down.

Birthing hope from the madnessthat perches on the fenceof our once perfectdreams.

For the longest time I was just trying to find someone to love as much as I loved you, but now I realize that’s never going to happen....

[America is] the land where people find whatever they have lost.

I don't eat red meat, but sometimes a man needs a steak.

I find that in the science fiction world, you have almost more women fans than male fans and I think it's because there's been such a shortage of strong female characters.

I love, I love human beings, studying them.

I've already got my rent paid, and it's too late in my life for me to go around talking up stuff that I don't like or believe in.