I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants, I have to do as Adam did in his garden... name things as I find them.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

The truth is helpless when up against perception

This is what people were looking at all day? How embarrassing! I looked like Quasimodo! My guests were exceptional actors.

No boy was ever so interesting to them as when he was interesting to someone else.

The fragrance of the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Most of us can as we choose make of this world either a palace or a prison.

Even when you cherish democratic ideals, it is never easy to turn them into effective democratic institutions. This process will take decades.

I do not love to work out, but if I stick to exercising every day and put the right things in my mouth, then my diabetes just stays in check.

When you ask "why", "what if" and "why not" you force yourself to explore what's possible and not just what is.

I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect.

I don't think about my old stuff. I just move forward.