I love Washington, but it is a self-important town.

Where flowers bloom so does hope.

The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.

Encourage & support your kids because "Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.

My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth. I wanted future generations to be able to savor what I had all my life.

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

A little stress and adventure is good for you, if nothing else, just to prove you are alive.

Flowers in the city are like lipstick on a woman-it just makes you look better to have a little color.

When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.

Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.

She was hearing the words. They just weren't registering on her Richter scale of sanity.

The people that God will bless the most are those who stayed with God. You do not work with walmart and expect Microsoft to pay you.

Whoever worries only wears himself out.

Poetry is an old wise serpent which only occasionally comes out to catch the sun (and scare people).

If my strength is technology, financial structuring is my son's skill.

Right away I thought I'd been hit by a hand grenade ... her (Joni Mitchells') voice, those words ... she nailed me to the back wall with two-inch spikes... I promptly fell in love with her...

People who become comedians… come from pain, come from conflict.

The children-my own and other people's-became the passion of my personal and professional life.

At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.