Nature with her wonders blinds and binds one still. There is no escape. I love her utterly through all time and times. All over the world towns to me are prison; green fields are home.

It is always exciting to open the door and go out into the garden for the first time on any day.

... if I wanted to have a happy garden, I must ally myself with my soil; study and help it to the utmost, untiringly. .... Always, the soil must come first.

So many of our lessons are learned, it would seem, too late to use on Earth.

Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

There is this power that comes with being famous.

The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.

Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.

The big problem is time. I don't have enough of it to do all the things I think about doing.

Pennsylvania is Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between.

We are being called into realization with great urgency and extraordinary beauty, and oftentimes not without difficulty.

There is nothing in the universe but matter.

You learn more from the flops than from the hits.

The Soul is shriveled up and buried in a grave that does not love.