The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy.

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.

Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason. . . .

Heredity is nothing but stored environment.

We must return to nature and nature's god.

A flower is an educated weed.

It is well for people who think, to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean.

Time heals nothing. It only brings other issues and tissues, and takes what is incurable or unacceptable out of the center of our attention.

When you're young, you think it's going to be solved by love. But it never is. Being close-as close as you can get-to another person only makes it clear the impassable distance between you.

That's the thing about time travel — you're always moving forward, even when you go back.

Most of our misfortunes are comments of our friends upon them.

I've not often been a man of many words. I've never considered myself to be overly articulate. I do feel more comfortable acting something out than I do explaining something or whatever.

My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.

If we've seen one thing from Donald Trump, it's that he says one thing one day, and another thing another.

She's pretty." (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.)

I think a performer should do his work and then shut up.

My basic notion regarding the matter of historical recognition is basically, it's a matter that should be left to the good hands of historians and experts.