I want us to know our world. If I lived in North Georgia on up through the Appalachians, I would be just as crazy about the mountain laurel as I am about [Texas] bluebonnets.

Where flowers bloom so does hope.

The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.

Encourage & support your kids because "Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.

My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth. I wanted future generations to be able to savor what I had all my life.

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

A little stress and adventure is good for you, if nothing else, just to prove you are alive.

Flowers in the city are like lipstick on a woman-it just makes you look better to have a little color.

When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.

Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.

Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.

There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death.

My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.

A writer's work is the product of laziness.

Ultimately, we measure ourselves against our own ideas of idealism and perfection, and we don't always come very close to them.

Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference.

when guns are outlawed only the outlaws will have guns.

That's the way you feel when you're beaten inside. You don't feel angry at those who've beaten you. You just feel ashamed.

One hand washes the other...both hands wash the face.

There were thousands of women in New York alone who could replace me in his life, but there was only one Gideon Cross.