Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people.

Although I went to college as a youth, I never considered it necessary to steep oneself in academic learning, in order to learn how to think. I welcome a fair and square, open and above-board fight on any subject, including this, but I despise a man who sneaks around under a cloak or cover of any society or clique to strike his blows.

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

Heredity: the traits that a disobedient child gets from the other parent.

The lure of happiness and the fear of pain . . . are the two forces which have through untold millenniums kept what we usually call life from destruction by the ever encroaching outside forces of destruction.

Of course it must, and our scientific men must be criticized boldly. They will not feel comfortable when you and I are through with them.