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Be persistent. Keep coming back. Be the case of the lice in the kindergarten class — they can't get rid of you.

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.

It’s always our leaders who want to fight, never the people.

These loaves were baked in brick ovens, out of doors, and some of them looked as big as peck measures. A slice cut from one of them and smeared thick with that delicious apple butter was a feast fit for gods or men.

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.

There’s never been a more interesting time to be confused about almost everything in the news.

It’s not about money at all. We made that up. How come of all the creatures … only one of them is dumb enough to pay rent.

I don’t know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense.

Biology is the first half of the periodic table coming to life. Technology is the second half of the periodic table coming to life.

So you go out and plant some native trees, and that turns human beings into what we're supposed to be, which is stewards and managers of the land rather than single-use occupants.

Friends are always telling me I have too many trees. Obviously friends like these are expendable.

If flowers heal us, shouldn’t we also try to heal flowers?

If you don't fix the road, you can't fix the creek.

Well done is better than well said.

I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images.

Either you are happening to this world or this world is happening to you … you have to make a choice.

For the oppressed, peace is the absence of oppression. For the oppressor, peace is the absence of resistance.

I will tell you the absolute secret of magic, at the most honest level. The secret of magic is you would not be willing to work as hard as we are, and that’s the whole secret.

By pruning, we speed up the process and “play the game” of the forest.

I lived my dream, some days it was a nightmare.