I have learned from Nature that dependence on unnatural beliefs weakens us in the struggle and shortens our breath for the race.

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.

I’ve always wondered about your name, ” Misha said to Hijja while scraping a bit of space gunk from the window of their spaceship.

The blowback against a bailout of Lehman would have been fierce. It is often forgotten, but the prevailing wisdom the day after Lehman fell was that its collapse was a good thing.

Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built.

I probably described more times than I can remember how stressful it was advising the President [Barack Obama] about going after Bin Laden.

I think that you really get what you recognize is in the universe.

Somehow I wasn't adding up right anymore. My parts weren't summing into myself.

We cannot sleep peacefully while babies are dying of hunger and the elderly are without medical assistance

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

Our survival as a human community may depend as much upon our nurture of love in infancy and childhood as upon the protection of our society from external threats.

I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well.