If there is another me inside of me Then I hope that he's a better person than I am

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

There is no wrong way to perform an act of kindness.

The man who worries morning and night about the dandelions in the lawn will find great relief in loving the dandelions.

My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

This is a debate about our understanding of human dignity, what it means to be a member of the human family, even though tiny, powerless and unwanted

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.

But neither money nor machines can create. They shuttle tokens of energy, but they do not transform. A civilization based on them puts people out of touch with their creative powers.

going to have an industrial society you must have places that will look terrible. Other places you set aside—to say, ‘This is the way it was.’

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization.

Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.

We Bene Gesserit sift people to find the humans.

A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared.

But she had felt since childhod that her life would n ot be ordinary. A moment would come- she would know it when she saw it- and everything would change.

Flattery won't hurt you if you don't swallow it.

All great ideas are dangerous.

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.