To be the agent whose touch changes nature from a wild force to a work of art is inspiration of the highest order.

In almost every garden, the land is made better and so is the gardener.

The best crop of a garden, year after year, is hope.

Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Now listen, Lam," he said, "you’re a nice egg but you’ve got yourself poured into the wrong pan.

I worked in a plant when I was 14 for two years. I always wanted to do the summer jobs. Honest to God, I always had to be doing something.

Silence is the only Voice of our God.

The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.

We have an absolute right in a democracy to argue about a war.

Meditate nothing. Learn to contemplate. Contemplate glory. There will be a light. Contemplate Truth until it burns your eyes out.

Humble living does not diminish. It fills. Going back to a simpler self gives wisdom.

For me, nothing brings out my 'born yesterday' idiotic qualities quite like having my photograph taken.

Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.