Prayer may be elevating if combined with work, and they who labor with head, hands or feet have faith and are generally quite sure of an immediate and favorable reply.

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.

The value of a substance is the product of the time spent to achieve it

Do your thing, without harming anything.

Knowing that I make somebody's day better is all that matters at the end of the day.

If we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It's management's risk and management's responsibility. Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?

Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.

It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart.

You can't measure what's inside a man's heart.

I have seen horrible places and have risked my life, but I know that somehow God will always save me.

The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.

Domestic violence is the front line of the war against women.