If you feel you can't trust anyone, then try trusting in yourself.

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.

Marriage to the groom does not means that his heart belongs to the bride.

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which throughout his lifetime he draws what he is and what he says and when the source dries up the work withers and crumbles.

...the influence of the factory upon the physiological and mental state of the workers has been completely neglected.

The more pride we have, the more other people’s pride irritates us

It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting.

All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land.

Jesus conveyed the impression of complete love, compassion, kindness, and infinite patience.

As an artist, where do you conjure these concepts? They come through you instead of through cognitive thought.

They are playing above the ground.

Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.