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.

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.

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.

It is well for people who think, to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean.

I've loved Leia and Han since I was seven years old. Getting a chance to tell some of their adventures? Mind-blowing on every level. I wish I could go back in time and high-five my baby self.

My memory about names and places now is dreadful. But lines, I can remember.

I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing

I believe in God, absolutely.

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

I always used to say hybrids would rule the world - people who have an understanding of many cultures and can relate to them with ease. And then along came Obama.

Crocodiles have a smile I've seen on the face of every lawyer I've ever met.

I like the idea of the painting looking at the viewer than the other way around.

A dark hour makes Jesus bright.

Socialism is just another form of tyranny.