Here every bird and fish knew its course. Every tree had its own place upon this earth. Only man had lost his way.

For me it has always been easier here, where only the fundamentals count, to learn what every man must learn in this world.""And that, my lord?""Enough of the meaning of life to be ready to die.

He watched their faces, and he knew each meant desperately what she said because they loved each other, and deep inside surely each knew the words were false, that the true words were those unspoken.

The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages

Encouragement is like water to the soul, it makes everything grow.

Sometimes you have to take a shot in the dark to discover the light.

Flowers are the music of the earth.

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

I figured if you want to get to where John Hammond is or Billy Gibbons is or Peter Wolf is, you have to start listening to the same stuff they did, and learn from that, and that's what I did.

When I came to Hollywood, I spoke no English - except nobody bullied me. Every day, I had nothing to do except training in English, to keep talking.

In the ten years I was president of the Teamsters, I had raised the membership from eight hundred thousand to more than 2 million and made it the largest single labor union the world.

Universal brotherhood is not even a beautiful dream. Antagonism is essential to man's greatest efforts.