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

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

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.

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

You do not love me

Stop shouting praise the Lord when you can't handle your life, you can't represent God when you are messing up his reputation.

Everybody's business is nobody's business and nobody's business is my business.

True passions do not deprive love.

Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence.

Is your transgression forgiven?

The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as unqualified as some of the men who are already there.

We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.

In the moment you ask, and believe and know you already have it in the unseen, the entire Universe shifts to bring it into the seen.