The one infallible sign that a spiritual teacher is a fraud is that he charges money for his instruction.

A good gardener looks at every plant every day.

we are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.

It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.

There is one rule in the garden that is above all others. You must give to nature more than you take. Obey it, and the earth will provide you in glorious abundance.

The Gardener does not create the Garden. The Garden creates the Gardener.

What is commonly called a pest is nature's way of bringing back into balance an imbalance that man has created.

Filthy, mucky tools: filthy, mucky work. Clean, beautiful tools: clean, beautiful work.

We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow.

If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.

Everywhere the devil spits, poison ivy grows.

What makes you different is the exact thing that makes you irreplaceable.

I remain exquisitely still. Anytime the eagle of another heart soars, whatever you are-mouse, toad, snake- don't move. From such great heights, it might not see you.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

In some respects woman is superior to man. She is more tender-hearted, more receptive, her intuition is more intense.

There is absolutely, 100 percent, a light at the end of the tunnel for anyone who stutters.

The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.

A man can't hit a woman and stay a man. He becomes a loathsome thing, even to himself. But the woman who stays with such a man panders to his darkness. They both risk their souls.

I like that when you create you really do create with a very small group of people, and in that space, before it goes out to all these people, that's what I love.

Comics just don't retire. They either die young or they go to 100.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.