I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.

Allen Klein

You can spit on a rose, but it's still a rose.

Marty Rubin

Never compromise your values.

Steve Maraboli

We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.

Olive Schreiner

My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.

Helen Keller

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Victor Hugo

I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

Samuel Johnson

We still have people in the active duty, and if people are feeling ill, if they're experiencing various symptoms and they're still in the active duty, they're less likely to come forward because that could result in their medical discharge.

Bernard Sanders

Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.

Cameron Crowe

I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.

George Michael

Well, I always had a chauffer, because I have never driven a car in my life. I still can't drive.

Bud Abbott

I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.

Mario Puzo