It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

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.

You need to trustTo surrenderTo ask for guidanceGo within for the answersThey're within youYou have the answersAll you need do is ask

In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.

Church, in the New Testament sense of the word, is not a meeting we attend, but a group of which we are a part, and a group we serve within.

Why can't a girl just want to know stuff and not do stuff?

The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.

A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.

Bad promises are better broken than kept.

All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.

Whether or not the artist can fulfill a social function is a question that remains unanswered.

I want to thank Gus Van Sant for selling out so that I could use his editor Curtis Clayton, who did a great job.