Over fertilized plants may be beautiful but are otherwise useless, like people whose energies are devoted so completely to their appearance that there is no other development.

A late summer garden has a tranquility found no other time of the year.

Dreams and dedication are a powerful combination.

I continue to handpick the beetles, mosquitoes feast on me, birds eat the mosquitoes, something else eats the birds, and so on up and down the biotic pyramid.

God created all people.

If silver is used and gold is hoarded than how can gold be of higher monetary value.

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.

I know what makes me happy. I know what makes me miserable. I'm trying to stay on the happy side.

Whenever someone creates something with all of their heart, then that creation is given a soul.

If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's like staring at the mirror all day.

I would say that what the value of talking about and thinking about a dome over Manhattan is that [Buckminster] Fuller has identified a scale of action I think is actually really compelling.

Weep if you must Parting is hell But life goes on So sing as well.

One intense hour is worth a dreamy day.