No beast has ever overcome the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

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

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.

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.

The happiest life has the greatest number of points of contact with the world, and it has the deepest feeling and sympathy with everything that is.

One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in plants, in the winds and rains, in birds and insects, in the warm-smelling earth.

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world…

I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man.

Good necessitates evil and the two sides of that disk are not always clearly marked.

Tis by no means the least of life's rules: To let things alone.

You've got to think about how to do things for the right price. You have to shoot in different places to be creative and get tax rebates.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate

Sometimes you forget where the heck you are but when you get on stage, you know by the look on the people's faces and the accent in their voices where you might be.

I'm an entrepreneur. 'Ambitious' is my middle name.

If you look at any kind of modern organization and you think, 'What are the foremost tools of power?' You will find that it is information.