"With plants, persuasion is better than force."

“All beauty of this world is wet with the dew of tears.”

“He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man.”

“To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.”

Source : "Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania". P. 38. Book by John Woolf Jordan, 1915.

“When we become negative and ungrateful, it is important to remember... We have met the enemy; and he is us.”

“Success Comes Through Rapidly Fixing our Mistakes Rather than Getting Things Right the First Time”

Source : "Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure". Book by Tim Harford, 2011.

“I don't think I should have been married... to anybody.”

“In the last century, everybody was singing lower.”

“We have to define our top priority pending expenditures; these are, first and foremost, our social expenditures, and we have to cut on expenditures that we cannot currently afford. This is the very least we should do in 2015”