There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done.

My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon.

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done.

Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities.

One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.

Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.

I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult.

We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

Tools of many kinds and well chosen, are one of the joys of a garden.

I was born in America but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe. Many people in my neighborhood hardly bothered to learn English.

I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didnt care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible horrible horrible creatures. They dont like people. Its not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.

I try to keep the number of projects I'm involved in down to one per year.

Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.

My career has always revolved around what I do and don't want my sisters and brothers seeing me doing.

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

When it gets to the part in life where you're more afraid of what your wife is going to do to you than if you box, say, Mike Tyson, you've got to get a new profession. You don't get to be a family. I know why boxers never quit, some of them. They don't have wives.

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.

In this business, it's easy for either your heart or your head to be swayed, and I try to always stay true to who I am.

So many Christian leaders have been so tepid or downright silent on the advance of the homosexual agenda.

Always, since our birth, we've insisted on another way of doing politics. Now, we had the chance to do it without arms, but without stopping being Zapatistas; that's why we keep the masks on.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

I long for the day when advertising will become a business for a grown man.

I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.

To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.

We've finally told the world that this is sports entertainment, and I think one of the best forms of entertainment is anything that's fun or funny, something that you really enjoy watching or listening to.

I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.

In the presence of the storm thunderbolts hurricane rain darkness and the lions which might be concealed but a few paces away he felt disarmed and helpless.

You learn something when you don't play well, and I figure that helping people, it makes me very, very happy.

It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!

Valentine's Day: Rubbing singles' noses in their lack of a mate and the noses of couples in their lack of time.

Well, I have no time for therapy.

While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in.

If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.