Those who take refuge behind theological barbed wire fences, quite often wish they could have more freedom of thought, but fear the change to the great ocean of truth as they would a cold bath.

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.

Every evening words, not stars, light the sky. No rest in life like life itself.

The land of victory is desperately waiting on your arrival, and your destiny demands that you never let your fears and doubts turn you into a failure.

He rocked in the swells, floating like the first germ of life adrift on the earth's cooling seas, formless macule of plasm trapped in a vapor drop and all creation yet to come.

....Only you mattered in that moment. Only you. And I would have done anything to save you. I would have paid any price committed any sin sold my very soul to do it.

Mere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned. The absence of such voices would be a symptom of grave illness to our society.

One [has] to sense the trend of history and precede it.

Why is it fair game to question conservatives' love or loyalty to children or to their fellow man, but beyond the pale to question liberals' love of country?

One thing that founders forget is that after they hire employees, they have to retain them.

If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.

I think women want to look beautiful. I think that's an important thing. It is relevant.