The Gardener does not create the Garden. The Garden creates the Gardener.

A good gardener looks at every plant every day.

we are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.

It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.

There is one rule in the garden that is above all others. You must give to nature more than you take. Obey it, and the earth will provide you in glorious abundance.

What is commonly called a pest is nature's way of bringing back into balance an imbalance that man has created.

Filthy, mucky tools: filthy, mucky work. Clean, beautiful tools: clean, beautiful work.

We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow.

The one infallible sign that a spiritual teacher is a fraud is that he charges money for his instruction.

If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.

Everywhere the devil spits, poison ivy grows.

Hope is a better friend than despair.

I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious.

A leader cannot avoid being hated. This hatred is directly proportional to his influence and power. A person who does not wish to be hated should avoid leadership roles.

RICH I’m lamenting. I’ve lost my innocence.CROMWELL You lost that some time ago. If you’ve only just noticed, it can’t have been very important to you.

Many a person has held close throughout their entire lives two friends that always remained strange to one another because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity the other by difference.

Tis no shame to follow the better precedent.

Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.

There are hundreds who can stand failure to one who can stand success; the good loser is far more common than the good winner.

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

I accept reality and dare not question it.