When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

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.

Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part of it to be embraced.

I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio.

Forget the self and you will fear nothing in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.

This lie of political correctness is bringing this country down. You just want to break through it all.

When one jumps over the edge one is bound to land somewhere.

In my fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama, and the United States of America.

To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend.

Every bit of joy in my heart, you know, every smile on my face is yours. It's awesome to be able to share that with somebody.

Because I was crazy and because my parents wanted me out of their hair, they put me in an all-day acting class... so they wouldn't have to deal with me, probably. And it just so happened there agents auditing the class, and I ended up getting signed.

Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

The first qualification for success in my view is a strong work ethic.

Contrary to popular belief, there are actually quite a few guys in the action sports community that have faith and are Christians.

All the sudden high-impact stress can really take a toll on your body. So if you still want to be active and get in a good workout, go to a yoga class or pilates class, or get in some strength and conditioning.

For girls and women, talk is the glue that holds a relationship together - and the explosive that can blow it apart. That's why you can think you're having a perfectly amiable chat, then suddenly find yourself wounded by the shrapnel from an exploded conversation.

At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.

The Internet is an interesting tool to use to reach people with things that you might call 'Disney learning,'

Without freedom there can be no morality.

Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series.

If there's ever an example of the importance of making bold bets and focusing on what you love, it's Twitter.

At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.

Maybe you don't work for seven months a year, but you'll work again. It may be a piece of garbage, so you wear hip boots.