Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people.

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.

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

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.

All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

Condition a woman (or a man) to value submission above all other attitudes and you will produce a character type whose most readily expressed emotion will be sadness.

Even the false accusations of a person of dubious morality can taint the reputation of an upright servant.

I get on fine with my mum and dad, but if they want to see the grandchildren, they come to me.

Talent always rises to the top

There's no way to convince people of your greatness. Whatever it is that you want to be, you have to know it inside and knife-fight your way to your dream.

You know, the courts may not be working any more, but as long as everyone is videotaping everyone else, justice will be done.

The older I get, the more I feel.

Does Obama really want his legacy to be, ‘The president who was an even bigger fool than Neville Chamberlain’?

When songs fall from the sky, all I can do is catch them before they hit the ground.