If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is on the road toward misfortune, misery and destruction.

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.

Schools are made for the average. The holes are all round, and whatever shape the pegs are they must wedge in somehow. One hasn't time to bother about anything but the average.

I'm the most awesome person I know.

Most of the time, yesterday’s level of increase will not be enough to secure tomorrow"s increase

That’s the problem with following all the rules—somebody else is eventually going to get ahead by breaking them, and then where will you be?

The woman who too easily and ardently yielded her devotion will find that its vitality, like a bright fire, soon consumes itself.

Professional football is the most violent thing your eyes have ever seen.

The melting-pot idea is futile ... The brew in a melting pot is always boiling over.

I don't know, but I think it's going to be good.

Since declaring that she would not serve in a second Obama administration, Clinton has dismissed suggestions that she will run in 2016.

Silence is all the genius a fool has.